Business name word
Film
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
Pronunciation: /fɪlm/, [fɪɫm]
What “Film” means
Noun
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
- A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie.
Verb
- To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Where the word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek
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