film

About 62.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

   a clear plastic film for wrapping food

2. noun A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. noun The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
4. noun 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.
5. noun A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie.
6. noun A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
7. verb To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

   A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

8. verb To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Similar words

celluloid picture movie shoot motion picture moving picture picture show cinema flick take

Often followed by

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Word family

filmable filmed filming filmless films