Hypertext Webster Gateway: "film"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Film \Film\, n. (Photog.)
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the
sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible
sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is
sometimes mounted.
{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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Film \Film\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Film \Film\, v. t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
film
n 1: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of
images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they
went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was
shot on location" [syn: {movie}, {picture}, {moving
picture}, {motion picture}, {picture show}, {pic}, {flick}]
2: a medium (art or business) that disseminates moving
pictures: "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this
story would be good cinema"; "film coverange of sporting
events" [syn: {cinema}, {celluloid}]
3: a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film
of dust"
4: a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent)
material used to wrap or cover things [syn: {plastic film}]
5: photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid
covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make
negatives or transparencies [syn: {photographic film}]
v 1: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: {shoot}, {take}]
2: record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
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