GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Film , n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.]
   A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
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   He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
   Pope.
   
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   hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
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   A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
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   Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
   Shak.
   
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   (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
   PJC
   (Photog.) a flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography.  It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.
   PJC
   a motion picture.
   PJC
   the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film.
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   a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.
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   Celluloid film (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates. -- Cut film (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.
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2.       
   Film, v. t.
   To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
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   It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
   Shak.
   
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   to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment or Tolstoy's War and Peace.
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