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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
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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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screen
English
Etymology
From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren from Old Dutch *skrank (“barrier”) (compare German Schrank (“cupboard”), Schranke (“fence”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?n, IPA(key): /sk?i?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
screen (plural screens)
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- Various forms or formats of information display
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
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- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- 1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
- (American football) Short for screen pass.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonym: pick
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Verb
screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
- The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- To fit with a screen.
- We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonym: pick
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
- A Phone to Screen Calls
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- screen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- screen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- screen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- censer, scener, scerne, secern
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