Film — meaning in English

English meaning

• film noun A movie; a sequence of moving images meant to be watched as a narrative or artistic work.
• movie noun A film made for entertainment, shown in cinemas or streamed at home.
• picture noun A drawing, painting, or photograph representing something.

Senses

Film is used for these senses in English:

• 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).
• suffusion (countable) A coat, coating, film, or plating.

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.

movie — full definition

1. noun A film made for entertainment, shown in cinemas or streamed at home.
2. noun A cinema, especially in the phrase "the movies."

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