film
noun
[ fɪlm ]
• a thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures.
• "he had already shot a whole roll of film"
• a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.
• "a horror film"
Similar:
movie,
picture,
feature,
feature film,
programme,
broadcast,
transmission,
motion picture,
moving picture,
flick,
pic,
vid,
talkie,
film
verb
• capture on film as part of a series of moving images; make a film of (a story, event, or book).
• "she glowered at the television crew who were filming them"
Similar:
record on film,
shoot,
record,
take pictures of,
make a film of,
capture on film,
video,
photograph,
adapt for film,
make into a film,
• become or appear to become covered with a thin layer of something.
• "his eyes had filmed over"
Origin:
Old English filmen ‘membrane’, of West Germanic origin; related to fell5.
