film
(noun) a thin coating or layer; “the table was covered with a film of dust”
film, photographic film
(noun) photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
film, plastic film
(noun) a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
film, cinema, celluloid
(noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures; “theater pieces transferred to celluloid”; “this story would be good cinema”; “film coverage of sporting events”
movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
(noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; “they went to a movie every Saturday night”; “the film was shot on location”
film, shoot, take
(verb) make a film or photograph of something; “take a scene”; “shoot a movie”
film
(verb) record in film; “The coronation was filmed”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
film (countable and uncountable, plural films)
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
A movie.
(cinema, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
• (motion picture): movie
film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)
(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
• MILF, milf
Source: Wiktionary
Film, n. Etym: [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.]
1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. Pope.
2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.
Film, v. t.
Definition: To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 February 2025
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
