Word Finder - film

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A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

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a clear plastic film for wrapping food

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A medium used to capture images in a camera.

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A movie.

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Cinema; movies as a group.

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A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

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To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

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A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

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To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

The formation of a film is noted.

The metallic film is tested with 20% nitric acid and with bleaching-powder solution.

The windows of the compound at the peak of the mountain were protected by film to keep light from leaking out.

On this film is ruled a system of lines 5 mm.

The oil film prevented 1 See Electrical Review, 1902, 51, p. 968.

In this case the action of the water is checked by the film of carbonate of lime which eventually forms on the surface of calcareous cement.

In the 2004 incarnation of the film, he was played by thirty-one-year-old Patrick Wilson.

Window glass exposed to alkaline vapours often shows a thin iridescent surface film which is supposed to be due to crystallization; the same change is found in pieces of Roman glass which have been dug out of the ruins of Pompeii.

Lead exposed to ordinary air is rapidly tarnished, but the thin dark film formed is very slow in increasing.

It preserves its lustre in dry air, but in moist air it becomes tarnished by the formation of a film of oxide.

In some of the smaller basins it sometimes happens that, when the excess of carbonate acid escapes rapidly, there is formed, besides the crystal bed below, a film above, shot like a sheet of ice across the surface.

This film, however, tends to contract on itself, and the loose strip of metal BB will, if it is let go, be drawn up towards AA, provided it is sufficiently light and smooth.

These rapidly descend in Newton's scale and at last disappear, showing that the thickness of the film is less than the tenth part of the length of a wave of light.

If, as is sometimes stated, the tension of a vertical film were absolutely the same throughout, the middle parts would of necessity fall with the acceleration of gravity.

Do you think that film therefore goes some way to diluting an intellectual elitism that is inherent in the reading of literature?

It is a film that plays across a hugely emotional landscape which inevitably polarizes people.

Omar Sharif found the story so enchanting that he chose this film to make his return to the screen.

This film has nothing like that (I hope that in saying that I haven't spoilt the ending for anyone ).

It's a bleak and satisfying film with an immensely engaging tarnished hero in Auteuil.

Not About Alan Turing The film enigma, based on Robert Harris's thriller novel of that name, is NOT about Alan Turing.

In the 1960 version of the film, he was played by a thirty-one-year-old Laurence Harvey.

In the absence of metallic tin there is no visible change; but, as soon as the metal is introduced, an electrolytic action sets in and the articles get coated over with a firmly adhering film of tin.

The mind is not to be regarded as a sensitized film which automatically records the impressions of the senses.

To facilitate the communication of the charge to the needle, the quartz fibre and its attachments are rendered conductive by a thin film of solution of hygroscopic salt such as calcium chloride.

But even when thus attenuated, the film may be proved to be present, since the surface-tension of the liquid is considerably less than that of pure water.

We must remember that since the film has two surfaces the surface-tension of the film is double the tension of the surface of the liquid of which it is formed.

The film sends out the same old message- violence begets violence.

Dollars brings bettors jarecki's film which otherwise have remained undone a tavern owner.

The only film that ever made me walk out of the cinema was Bonfire of the Vanities - utter bilge.

The release also dovetails the forthcoming film biopic " See Me Feel Me " starring Mike Myers as Keith Moon.

Do you see yourself getting into the film biz at some point?

Despite a pretty blatant title the film isn't constituted entirely by large amounts of violence.

The settings of the film are dark, but never to the point where they become bleak.

Back to top Rain spotting Cause Depressions or surface blemishes in the paint film.

As the film gets increasingly violent and intense, the director maintains a dry, sardonic tone that makes the gruesome bloodletting almost comical.

Yeah, Bibi is annoying and the PTS is a real howler, but no Bond film is without a few bobbles.

The film director has even taken to using the word ' bollocks ' during his visits.

Rush in the film is yomping about naked on top of tables and exchanging bon mots with his jailers.

An accompanying booklet includes Ray's sketches for the film.

Sit down and watch a film in the renewably powered cinema, shake yer booty with bands o­n the sound stage.

Film Quarterly, 1959 I found 'Ben Hur ' in every way bloody bloody and bloody boring.

Donal won two Royal Television Society Awards for a film on drug dealing by night club bouncers.

Ron Perlman's performance will linger in the memory, and del Toro's razzle-dazzle makes the film breathtaking in its beauty.

For a digital film that was shot so cheaply, it did look breathtaking.

A film crew, making a documentary for Japanese TV on canal restoration in the UK, focus on the trainee bricklayers.

The critical load for adhesion failure is easiest to identify in the case of a hard, relatively brittle film on a softer substrate.

Will you get a call saying your film is too brittle?

For the ball Miss Simmons wore an off-the-shoulder gown of gold brocade - the same dress she wore for the Royal Command film performance.

The film opens with Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter viewing a magnificent four-story brownstone in the heart of Manhattan.

Bruce lee film, the attackers don't line up!