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Synonyms for film

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : film
Phonetic Transcription : fɪlm

Top 10 synonyms for film
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Définition of film

Origin :
  • Old English filmen "membrane, thin skin," from West Germanic *filminjan (cf. Old Frisian filmene "skin," Old English fell "hide"), extended from Proto-Germanic *fello(m) "animal hide," from PIE *pel- (4) "skin, hide" (cf. Greek pella, Latin pellis "skin").
  • Sense of "a thin coat of something" is 1570s, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid. First used of "motion pictures" in 1905.
  • noun coating, tissue; mist
  • noun movie
  • verb take photographs
Example sentences :
  • Over them lay a film, like that which veils the eyes of some dead thing.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Now ensued a spell of calm weather, with a film of haze over the sky.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The film formed after which none of us had ever seen recovery.
  • Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
  • In a few minutes every port was covered with a film of the weird stuff.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks
  • She looked at him through a film of tears, her face drawn and startled.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • There's a film that grows over your eyes, you look at nothing else.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Oil is lighter than water, as you know, because you have seen a film of oil floating on water.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • The negative is taken on one film, then this is printed on another film.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • Then the film grew so thick we could not see the worm any more.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 » by Various
  • I dedicate it to the film, to the moving picture, to beauty!
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
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