1. (noun) movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Synonyms: delineation, cinema, moving-picture show, impression, motion-picture show, scene, mental picture, characterisation, movie, flick, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, pictorial matter, image, photograph, plastic film, word-painting, photo, depiction, painting, characterization, video, word picture, film, motion picture, photographic film, picture show, moving picture, picture, celluloid
2. (noun) film, cinema, celluloid
a medium that disseminates moving pictures
Synonyms: cinema, motion-picture show, movie, flick, pic, picture show, moving-picture show, movie theater, plastic film, movie house, film, motion picture, celluloid, picture palace, photographic film, moving picture, picture, movie theatre
3. (noun) film, photographic film
photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
Synonyms: moving picture, plastic film, moving-picture show, picture show, cinema, photographic film, film, motion picture, pic, celluloid, flick, motion-picture show, movie, picture
4. (noun) film
a thin coating or layer
Synonyms: moving picture, plastic film, moving-picture show, picture show, cinema, photographic film, motion picture, pic, celluloid, flick, motion-picture show, movie, picture
5. (verb) film, plastic film
a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
Synonyms: moving picture, plastic film, moving-picture show, picture show, cinema, photographic film, film, motion picture, pic, celluloid, flick, motion-picture show, movie, picture
6. (verb) film, shoot, take
make a film or photograph of something
Synonyms: require, read, hit, occupy, subscribe to, rent, withdraw, inject, lead, ingest, pullulate, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, learn, fill, dash, burgeon forth, fritter away, dart, drive, consume, buck, bourgeon, demand, consider, need, study, pick out, contain, fool, contract, adopt, charter, film, remove, admit, lease, shoot down, train, blast, take up, fool away, bring, strike, use up, necessitate, take, engage, call for, make, claim, get, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, fritter, scoot, germinate, photograph, submit, convey, take aim, shoot, aim, charge, direct, tear, snap, scud, pip, spud, sprout, subscribe, select, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, hire, accept, guide, flash, dissipate, take in, ask, frivol away, conduct
7. (verb) film
record in film
Synonyms: take, shoot
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