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Synonyms for films

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

Top 10 synonyms for films
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Définition of films

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 :
  • Not a thing disturbed; we picked up my films and tried to decide what next.
  • Extract from : « Valley of Dreams » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
  • I've seen these American films that they send over here, Mr. Samuel.
  • Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  • And the films don't always have happy endings, because life isn't always kind.
  • Extract from : « Trapped in 'Black Russia' » by Ruth Pierce
  • I wish we could have these films in America instead of the jig-saw puzzles I've seen.
  • Extract from : « Trapped in 'Black Russia' » by Ruth Pierce
  • In the morning I will photograph these marks and you can do the developing of the films.
  • Extract from : « The Silent Bullet » by Arthur B. Reeve
  • The films were excellent, it was stated, and just what were needed.
  • Extract from : « The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast » by Victor Appleton
  • Once more the films flew along, in the moving picture of his mind.
  • Extract from : « Shelled by an Unseen Foe » by James Fiske
  • But what I want to know is, why nobody has thought of developing the films.'
  • Extract from : « The Gay Rebellion » by Robert W. Chambers
  • Griffin used him for some lighting effects in one of his films.
  • Extract from : « Find the Woman » by Arthur Somers Roche
  • On going back to my hotel one night I wished to develop some films.
  • Extract from : « A Corner of Spain » by Walter Wood
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