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ταινία — meaning in English

tainia

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English meaning

  • band noun A group of musicians who perform together.
  • 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.
  • ribbon noun A narrow strip of fabric, often decorative, used for tying, trimming, or as an award.
  • strip noun A long, narrow piece of material or land.
  • tape verb To fasten, seal, or attach something using adhesive tape.
  • tapeworm noun A long, flat parasitic worm that lives in the intestines of humans and animals.

Senses

ταινία is used for these senses in English:

  • band A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
  • film (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • 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.
  • ribbon A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
  • ribbon An awareness ribbon.
  • strip (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
  • tape Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  • tapeworm (countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.

band — full definition

  1. noun A group of musicians who perform together.
  2. noun A thin strip of material used to bind, wrap, or hold something together.
  3. noun A range or category within a larger scale, such as income or frequency.
  4. verb To join together for a shared purpose.

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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