Definitions for films

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films film

Spelling: [film]

IPA: /fɪlm/

Films is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in films (films).

Definitions for films

noun

1. a thin layer or coating:
2. a thin sheet of any material:
3. a thin skin or membrane.
4. a delicate web of filaments or fine threads.
5. a thin haze, blur, or mist.
6. Photography. a cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate composition made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a sensitive emulsion for taking photographs. a strip or roll of this. the coating of emulsion on such a sheet or strip or on a photographic plate.
7. Movies. a strip of transparent material, usually cellulose triacetate, covered with a photographic emulsion and perforated along one or both edges, intended for the recording and reproduction of images. a similar perforated strip covered with an iron oxide emulsion (magfilm) intended for the recording and reproduction of both images and sound. motion picture.
8. Often, films. motion pictures collectively. the motion-picture industry, or its productions, operations, etc. motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with a film, thin skin, or pellicle:
2. Movies. to photograph with a motion-picture camera. to reproduce in the form of motion pictures:

verb (used without object)

1. to become covered by a film:
2. Movies. to be reproduced in a motion picture, especially in a specified manner: to direct, make, or otherwise engage in the production of motion pictures.

Origin of films

before 1000; 1890-95 for def 6; 1900-05 for def 7; Middle English filme, Old English filmen membrane; akin to fell⁴

Examples for films

Now ensued a spell of calm weather, with a film of haze over the sky.

In a few minutes every port was covered with a film of the weird stuff.

It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”

She looked at him through a film of tears, her face drawn and startled.

You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.

What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?

The film formed after which none of us had ever seen recovery.

A lot of your reflections on the classics are pretty intense, have you ever thought about being a film critic?

Over them lay a film, like that which veils the eyes of some dead thing.

Lee and Coogan did briefly meet with the pope, with pictures to prove it, but no one at the Vatican officially screened the film.