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电影 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • celluloid noun An early type of flexible plastic once used to make photographic and movie film.
  • film noun A movie; a sequence of moving images meant to be watched as a narrative or artistic work.
  • filmmaking noun The craft or business of producing movies.
  • movie noun A film made for entertainment, shown in cinemas or streamed at home.
  • picture noun A drawing, painting, or photograph representing something.
  • trailer noun An unpowered vehicle towed behind a car or truck to carry cargo or equipment.

Senses

电影 is used for these senses in English:

  • celluloid (figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.
  • cut scene (video games) A usually non-interactive portion of cinematic narrative shown during a video game to advance the story. It may be presented with full motion video or may be rendered with the game engine.
  • film A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
  • filmmaking The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.
  • movie (chiefly, North America, AU, NZ) A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.
  • picture (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
  • trailer A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.

celluloid — full definition

  1. noun An early type of flexible plastic once used to make photographic and movie film.
  2. noun Cinema or film as an art form (used figuratively).

film — full definition

  1. noun A movie; a sequence of moving images meant to be watched as a narrative or artistic work.
  2. noun A thin layer or coating of a substance.
  3. verb To record a scene or event using a camera.

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