Film Definition

fĭlm
filmed, filming, films
noun
films
A thin veil, haze, or blur.
Webster's New World
A fine, thin skin, surface, layer, or coating.
Webster's New World
An opacity of the cornea.
Webster's New World

A sheet or roll of a flexible cellulose material coated with an emulsion sensitive to light and used to capture an image for a photograph or film.

Webster's New World
A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
filmed, filming, films
To cover with or as with a film.
Webster's New World
To become covered with a film.
Webster's New World

To make a film.

Webster's New World

To take a photograph or film of.

Webster's New World
To make an electronic recording of (an image or images), as with a digital camera.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Film

Noun

Singular:
film
Plural:
films

Origin of Film

  • From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminją (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pélno-mo (“membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel(w)-, *plē(w)-, *péln- (“skin, hide”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē 'membrane, scab', Russian plevá 'membrane', Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English filmen pel-3 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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