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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

  1. noun A building where films are shown to the public.
  2. noun Films collectively, or the art and industry of filmmaking.

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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