film
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- noun
- /fɪlm/
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película
- She is studying cinematography to learn how to make her own films.
- watch films
- make films
- a documentary film
If you're shooting a film, shoot one day a week.
- If you're shooting a film, shoot one day a week.
- This is your first American film and you win an Oscar.
- They started championing for the film by by word of mouth.
- They were showing the film and Louis was there.
- We're going to make this film and then you sign up to it.
- Paul Thomas Anderson's less famous film There May Be Blood.
- And JT Walsh was on that film who has since passed.
- This is the Charlotte Tilbury film * bronze and glow.
- I mean, Gabrielle Union put me in a film that came out last year.
Examples
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It's not every day your girlfriend stars in her first indie film.
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It's a horror film that takes place in a retirement community.
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Now, what about the films as movies?
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This is your first American film and you win an Oscar.
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I like watching new films, old films, classics, everything.
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When completed, it was the most expensive film produced in Denmark to that time.
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Hundreds of thousands of workers in advertising, film, and television are dependent on this industry for support.
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The perception of the themes of the films has changed over the course of time.
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I haven't seen this film in so long.
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One stars in the upcoming action film Falcon Rising.
Synonyms
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1.0
A story told with moving pictures on a screen
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7.7
A movie shown on a screen in a theatre or at home
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3.0
A story that uses moving images and sound, like a movie
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4.1
A casual word for a movie you watch at a cinema
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8.1
A movie shown in a cinema or on screen
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2.5
A film shown in a cinema for people to watch
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3.5
A movie shown on a screen that tells a story
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5.5
A show that tells a story with moving images and sound like a movie
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9.9
An old word for a movie from the early days of film
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
Compounds
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2.3
An event where people watch a set of films, often with first showings and awards
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3.2
The study of films at university that looks at their history and ideas about them
- Specialized
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3.0
Special film that records pictures made by X-rays to show bones or the inside of objects
- Specialized
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3.1
A thin strip of material that cameras use to take pictures with light
- Specialized
A small fern with very thin, almost see-through leaves that grows in very wet tropical forests
- Archaic
Film for taking photos that reacts to blue, violet, and green light but not red
- Specialized
Material for taking pictures that records light in colors we can see
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Film came to mean a 'movie' because early movies were made from long strips of photographic film, so the name of the material became the name of the story shown on it.