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filmer

Variant of film

noun

  1. a fine, thin skin, surface, layer, or coating
  2. 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 ()
  3. a thin veil, haze, or blur
  4. an opacity of the cornea
    1. a sequence of photographs or drawings projected on a screen in such rapid succession that they create the optical illusion (because of the persistence of vision) of moving persons and objects
    2. a play, story, etc. photographed as such a sequence
    3. the business of making films
  5. Rare
    1. a fine filament
    2. a gauzy web of filaments

transitive verb

  1. to cover with or as with a film
  2. to take a photograph or film () of
  3. to make a film () of (a novel, play, etc.)

intransitive verb

  1. to become covered with a film
    1. to make a film ( & )
    2. to be filmed or suitable for filming: this novel won't film well

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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