film — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cinema noun A building where films are shown to the public.
- 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:
- cinema (film, uncountable) Films collectively.
- cinema (film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.
- cinema (film, countable, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography
- film A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- 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.
- picture (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
cinema — full definition
- noun A building where films are shown to the public.
- noun Films collectively, or the art and industry of filmmaking.
film — full definition
- noun A movie; a sequence of moving images meant to be watched as a narrative or artistic work.
- noun A thin layer or coating of a substance.
- verb To record a scene or event using a camera.