film

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a thin coating or layer

   the table was covered with a film of dust

2. 2
   verb

   record in film

   The coronation was filmed

3. 3
   noun

   A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

   a clear plastic film for wrapping food

4. 4
   noun

   A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.

   Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.

5. 5
   noun

   A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

   Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

6. 6
   verb

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

   A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

7. 7
   verb

   To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

   It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

8. 8
   noun

   photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“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”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin,…