film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlm/
ipa: [fɪɫm]
rhymes: -ɪlm
ipa: [ˈfɪlm̩]
ipa: [ˈfɪləm]
ipa: /fɪu̯m/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfɪl(ɪ)m/
Forms: form: films
Etymology: From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient 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.
Senses: examples: text: a clear plastic film for wrapping food
text: He from thick films ſhall purge the viſual ray, / And on the ſightleſs eye-ball pour the day: […]
ref: 1712 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published 1751, →OCLC, page 40, lines 39–40:
glosses: A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A medium used to capture images in a camera.
examples: text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
glosses: A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
glosses: The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
examples: text: Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Synonyms: sense: motion picture
word: movie
Derived terms: action film
adult film
antifilm
art film
befilm
bibliofilm
bifilm
biofilm
blood film
blue film
bold film
book of the film
brickfilm
buddy film
cinefilm
cine film
ciné film
cling film
cult film
disaster film
docufilm
dry film thickness
epifilm
exploitation film
fanfilm
feature film
file film
filmaholic
filmanthropy
film at 11
film at eleven
film badge
film badge holder
film blanc
film bro
filmcard
filmcoated
film comic
film-craft
filmcraft
film crew
film d'auteur
film director
filmdom
filmesque
filmgoer
film-goer
filmgoing
filmhood
film horse
filmic
filmify
film industry
filmish
filmization
filmize
filmland
filmless
film library
filmlike
filmlore
film-maker
film maker
filmmaker
film making
filmmaking
filmography
filmology
film out
film projector
film punctuation
film school
film score
filmscript
filmset
film-set
film set
filmsetter
film speed
film star
film stock
film strip
filmstrip
film studies
filmwise
filmwork
filmworthy
filmwright
filmy
filmzine
flimsy
fuck film
genre film
have seen this film
horror film
image film
infilm
Langmuir-Blodgett film
masala film
metafilm
microfilm
minifilm
monofilm
movie film
multifilm
musical film
nanofilm
newsfilm
nonfilm
on film
package film
pink film
plain film
popcorn film
portmanteau film
postfilm
prefilm
quarter-wavelength film
race film
road film
Rollin film
scientifilm
short film
silent film
slasher film
snuff film
soap film
sound film
sound-on-film
stag film
stfilm
talking film
telefilm
tentpole film
theatrical film
thin film
thin-film
thin-film interference
thin-film transistor
tribofilm
war film
λ/4 film