1. a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust"
2. photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
3. a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
4. a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"
5. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
6. make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
7. record in film; "The coronation was filmed"

Similar Words: photographic film, plastic film, cinema, celluloid, movie, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick, shoot, take

Hyponyms: scum, slick, soap film, footage, microfilm, motion-picture film, movie film, cine-film, negative, orthochromatic film, panchromatic film, positive, reel, roll, roll film, sequence, episode, X-ray film, film clip, Polaroid, silver screen, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, peepshow, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talking picture, talkie, three-D, 3-D, 3D, reshoot, cinematize, cinematise

Grouped Verbs: photograph, snap, shoot

Derivational Morphology: shoot, take, photographic film, cinema, celluloid, movie, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick, filming, cinematography, motion-picture photography