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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'film' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions film noun  A thin layer of some substance. (context, photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera. A motion picture. Translations:  Italian: pellicola(it, film, m}}, {{t+, it)f Spanish: pelí­cula(es)f German: Film verb  To record a motion picture on photographic film "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC." Translations:  German: (te, de, filmen), drehen(de) Italian: girare un film, filmare Spanish: es(es, filmar}}, {{t)rodar Etymology: w:Old English, Old English filmen, membrane, skin from w:West Germanic, West Germanic filminjan (cf. w:Old Frisian, Old Frisian filmene, skin, Old English fell hide), extended from Proto Germanic. fello(m) animal hide, from w:PIE, Proto-Indo-European pello-/ pelno- (cf. w:Greek language, Greek pella, w:Latin, Latin pellis skin). Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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