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curtain
English
Etymology
From Middle English curteyn, corteyn, cortyn, cortine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin c?rt?na (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??tn?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?tn?/, [?k??n?]
- Rhymes: -??(r)t?n
- Homophone: Kirton
Noun
curtain (plural curtains)
- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. 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.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
- He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
- (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
- Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
- (euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)
- To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
- 1985, Carol Shields, "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,
- The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.
- 1985, Carol Shields, "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,
- (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 2, [2]
- And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
- 1840, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry" [3]
- But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.
- 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book IV, Perseus, p. 115,
- He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters / As they stilled, now curtained by the riding / Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.
- 2003, A. B. Yehoshua, The Liberated Bride (2001), translated by Hillel Halkin, Harcourt, Part 2, Chapter 17, p. 115,
- But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 2, [2]
Synonyms
- becurtain
Translations
See also
- blind
- drape
- curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- turacin
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film
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)
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- A movie.
- (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
- 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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (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)
- film
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, from English film.
Noun
film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)
- film
- movie
Declension
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [film]
Noun
film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)
- film, movie
Declension
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?film/
Noun
film m (plural films)
- 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
- 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
- (photography) film
- 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)
- a movie, a film, motion picture
- film; a thin layer
- 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)
- film, movie
Derived terms
- filmproducent
- filmregisseur
- speelfilm
- tekenfilm
- verfilmen
Estonian
Etymology
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Noun
film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)
- movie
Declension
Derived terms
- filmindus
- filmilint
- värvifilm
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/
Noun
film m (plural films)
- 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)
- (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
- 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)
- 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)
- film,
- a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
- 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)
- 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)
- (Jersey) movie, film
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)
- a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
- a film (thin material, layer or coating)
- a film, movie (cinematic production)
Derived terms
Related terms
- filme
Verb
film
- imperative of filme
References
- “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)
- a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
- a film (thin material, layer or coating)
- 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)
- film, movie, motion picture
- 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)
- Superseded spelling of filme.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.
Noun
film n (plural filme)
- 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)
- film, movie
Mutation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- film (photography)
- 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)
- photographic film
- 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)
- film, motion picture
Further reading
- “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
film c
- film; a thin layer
- film; medium used to capture images in a camera
- 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)
- a medium used to capture images in a camera
- a movie
Declension
Uzbek
Etymology
From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.
Noun
film (plural filmlar)
- film, movie, motion picture
- Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina
Declension
Related terms
- filmoskop
- filmoteka
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