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
5. 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
6. Rare
   1. a fine filament
   2. a gauzy web of filaments

Etymology: ME < OE filmen, membrane, foreskin: for IE base see fell

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