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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a comedy film ▪ They were the most successful comedy films of all time. a film crew ▪ The film crew were making a political documentary. a film/art/music etc critic ▪ He became the chief music critic for the Herald ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "to cover with a film or thin skin," from film (v.). Intransitive sense is from 1844. Meaning "to make a movie of" is from 1899. Related: Filmed ; filming .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Film \Film\, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.] A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. --Pope. hence, any thin layer ...
Usage examples of film.
When that was done, we were going to have him give you all a little talk at Ahu Akivi and film that as well.
Over to the side, Daniel, who, like me, was oblivious to anything that could not be seen through the camera lens, kept right on filming, panning across the back of the ahu, not noticing the absolute chaos just to his left.
The magazine ads for fallout shelters with plush carpeting and Scrabble sets, the sad government films teaching kindergartners to survive an airburst by popping under their school desks: the age of information has caught up with itself.
There is by now a vast library of described and filmed conversations, employing Ameslan and other gestural languages, with Washoe, Lucy, Lana and other chimpanzees studied by the Gardners and others.
Whereas the old script had been primarily about a berserk Amishman who strangled and then did unspeakable things to women in a bathtub, the new script called for the movie to be filmed almost exclusively in a barn.
X-ray film displayed off to one side and at the blood-pressure indicator, which the anesthetist read off at thirty-second intervals.
When you do that, you remover debris, stimulate small glands to secrete oil for a tear film that covers the eyes like Saran Wrap, and simulate your own tears, which are antibacterial and hydrate the cornea.
Russ began filming the initial scene, where the actor comes up the gravel walk leading to the Apgar farmhouse.
Zoe assumed that Arcadia was in her early forties, but she possessed the timeless elegance of a 1930s film star.
KPAX is suspiciously like an Argentinean film from 1986 called Man Facing Southeast.
And lower down the great forest trees arch over it, and the sunbeams trickle through them, and dance in many a quiet pool, turning the far-down sands to gold, brightening majestic tree-ferns, and shining on the fragile polypodium tamariscinum which clings tremblingly to the branches of the graceful waringhan, on a beautiful lygodium which adorns the uncouth trunk of an artocarpus, on glossy ginger-worts and trailing yams, on climbers and epiphytes, and on gigantic lianas which, climbing to the tops of the tallest trees, descend in vast festoons, many of them with orange and scarlet flowers and fruitage, passing from tree to tree, and interlacing the forest with a living network, while selaginellas and lindsayas, and film ferns, and trichomanes radicans drape the rocks in feathery green, along with mosses scarcely distinguishable from ferns.
In this case Brentford, Middlesex Inside, as well as the cassette of exposed film there would be a completed address slip to be stuck on the packet of processed transparencies.
The band of gel containing each protein can either be cut out with a razorblade and the radioactivity in it counted, or the whole gel can be placed against X-ray film and an autoradiogram made, just as with the 2-DG experiment.
Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
She reminded Banks of the kind of elegant, remote blondes that Alfred Hitchcock had cast in so many of his films.