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say it: film
film is a noun and verb meaning "a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
“they went to a movie every Saturday night”
“the film was shot on location”
a medium that disseminates moving pictures
“theater pieces transferred to celluloid”
“this story would be good cinema”
“film coverage of sporting events”
art · commercial enterprise
photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for film come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.