different between cover vs film

English

Etymology

From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperi? (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operi? (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wr?on (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again,” the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Noun

cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)

1. A lid.
2. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

3. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
4. The top sheet of a bed.
5. A cloth, usually fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa to protect it from dust, rain, etc. when not in use.
6. A cover charge.

7. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

8. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
9. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
10. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

11. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
12. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
13. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
14. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
15. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
16. (dated) A swindler's confederate.
17. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

18. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
19. (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hijazi Arabic: ?????? (kavar)

Translations

Adjective

cover (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
2. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Translations

Verb

cover (third-person singular simple present covers, present participle covering, simple past and past participle covered)

1. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

2. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

   • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
3. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

4. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

5. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
6. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
   • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy

     the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

7. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

8. To deal with or include someone or something.
   • 2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:

     Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.

9. To be enough money for.

10. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.

11. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

12. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
13. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
14. To provide insurance coverage for.

15. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

    Synonym: impregnate

16. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).

17. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
18. (sports) To defend a particular player or area.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cover.

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: covern
• Danish: lave en cover

Translations

Anagrams

• corve

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?k?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: co?ver

Noun

cover m (plural covers, diminutive covertje n)

1. A cover, cover song, cover version (rerecording of a previously recorded song, typically by a different artist).
2. A cover, the front of a magazine or of the package of a storage medium.

Derived terms

• coveren
• coverversie

Finnish

Etymology

From English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?er/, [?ko??e?r]

Noun

cover

1. cover, cover version, cover song (rerecording of a previously recorded song)

Declension

Synonyms

• koveri, coverversio

French

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m (plural covers)

1. (colloquial) cover (rerecording)

German

Verb

cover

1. inflection of covern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Polish

Etymology

From English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?ka.v?r/

Noun

cover m inan

1. (music) cover version (rerecording of a song)

Declension

Further reading

• cover in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cover in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m or f (rare) (plural coveres)

1. (music) cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)

   Synonym: versão cover

Spanish

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m (plural covers)

1. cover, cover version

Swedish

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover c

1. (music) cover, cover song

Usage notes

The plural of this word could also be covers.

Declension

Derived terms

• coverband

References

• cover in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/, [f??m]
  • Rhymes: -?lm
• (North East England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [?f?lm?], [?f?l?m]

Etymology

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“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”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian pl?v? (“membrane, scab”), Russian ?????? (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. 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.

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A movie.
4. (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

Synonyms

• (motion picture): movie

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

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

2. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Translations

Anagrams

• MILF, milf

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film (plural films)

1. film

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Noun

film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)

1. film
2. movie

Declension

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film]

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)

1. film, movie

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film (a movie)

   Synonym: pel·lícula

Related terms

• filmar
• fílmic

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film m inan

1. (photography) film
2. movie, film, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmovat
• filma?

Further reading

• film in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• film in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/, [?film]
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

1. a movie, a film, motion picture
2. film; a thin layer
3. plural indefinite of film

Inflection

Derived terms

• filme
  • filmning
• filmfotograf
• filmhold
• filmproduktion
• filmskole

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m/, /f?lm/
• Rhymes: -?lm, -?l?m

Noun

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

1. film, movie

Derived terms

• filmproducent
• filmregisseur
• speelfilm
• tekenfilm
• verfilmen

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

1. movie

Declension

Derived terms

• filmindus
• filmilint
• värvifilm

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. movie, film

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: film
• ? Romanian: film
• ? Turkish: film

Further reading

• “film” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?film]
• Hyphenation: film
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film (plural filmek)

1. (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
2. film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
3. film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [?f?lm]
• (Betawi) IPA^(key): /?f?l(?)m/, /?pel?m/

Noun

film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)

1. film,
   1. a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
   2. (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
   3. a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.

Alternative forms

• filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “film” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From English film.

Noun

film m (invariable)

1. film, movie

   Synonym: pellicola

Derived terms

See also

• cinema

Further reading

• film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. (Jersey) movie, film

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

Related terms

• filme

Verb

film

1. imperative of filme

References

• “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

References

• “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ilm/

Noun

film m inan (diminutive filmik)

1. film, movie, motion picture
2. film (medium used to capture images in a camera)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) filmografia, filmowiec
• (adjectives) filmowy, filmograficzny

Further reading

• film in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

film m (plural filmes)

1. Superseded spelling of filme.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.

Noun

film n (plural filme)

1. movie, film

Declension

References

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?filim/

Noun

film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)

1. film, movie

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. film (photography)
2. film (motion picture)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?m/

Noun

film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)

1. photographic film
2. movie, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmár
• filmova?
• filmový
• filmovo
• filmík

Further reading

• film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?film/, [?film]

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film, motion picture

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

film c

1. film; a thin layer
2. film; medium used to capture images in a camera
3. a movie

Declension

Related terms

References

• film in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/
• IPA^(key): /filim/ (colloquial)

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

1. a medium used to capture images in a camera
2. a movie

Declension

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.

Noun

film (plural filmlar)

1. film, movie, motion picture

   Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina

Declension

Related terms

• filmoskop
• filmoteka