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Used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film
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celluloid
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Word definitions for celluloid in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films? ▪ But the celluloid dreams filtered through. ▪ Given the ferocious imagination of his subconscious, it's hardly surprising that his celluloid ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Celluloids are a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor , with added dyes and other agents. Generally considered the first thermoplastic , it was first created as Parkesine in 1856 and as Xylonite in 1869, before being registered as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transparent plastic made from nitro-celluloses and camphor, 1871, trademark name (reg. U.S.), a hybrid coined by U.S. inventor John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1900) from cellulose + Greek-based suffix -oid . Used figuratively for "motion pictures" from 1934. Abbreviated ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film. 2 (context figuratively often used attributively English) The genre of cinema; film.
Usage examples of celluloid.
And Danilo Kis provides precise, poetic description that verges on the exhaustive, lending his novels a Proustian or Nabokovian air, particularly in the items he makes memorable: a book, a flower, a celluloid collar.
Ganelon recognized him as an American by his celluloid collar and the stylographical pencil in his pocket.
Low-budget celluloid horror films created ambiguity and possible elision by putting ?
With heavy hand he crushes a celluloid rattle and expresses doubts that Walli stems from the stem of Walter.
Squeezed into dinner jackets, with celluloid cunts in tow: crispy, crunchy, cute.
For more formal wear he laid out on the bed a pin-striped, blue-black, double-breasted suit, suspenders, wide floral necktie and white shirt with celluloid collar.
It came over me then what an awful thing it must be to be so far from home and knowing nobody, and having to wear trousers and celluloid collars instead of robes and turbans, and eat potatoes and fried things instead of olives and figs and dates, and to be in danger of being taken back and made into a Mohammedan and having to keep a harem.
On the top step, huddled and shivering, with streams of water running off his hair down over his celluloid collar, pouring out of his sleeves and cascading down the stairs from his trousers legs, was Tufik.
Seated on the doorstep, celluloid collar shining, the brown pasteboard suitcase at his feet, was Tufik.
He stretched his five feet four inches, patted his bow tie, and pulled down his celluloid cuffs.
On those first celluloid Christmases I look as overdressed as the Infanta.
In syrupy light Luce was feeding the celluloid through the sprocket wheel.
He wore a celluloid collar so high that it took him just under the ears and made him look like he was always stretching his neck.
All he asks is that men shall live more simply, nearer to the earth, with more sense of the magic of things like vegetation, fire, water, sex, blood, than they can in a world of celluloid and concrete where the gramophones never stop playing.
July in the White House, where Nixon and a handful of others sat down and gave serious thought to all their possible options with regard to those reels of harmless looking celluloid that had suddenly turned into time bombs.