film

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A story or events recorded as moving pictures and shown in a cinema or on screen; a movie.

   We watched an exciting film at the cinema last night.

2. 2
   verb

   To record something using a camera.

   The crew filmed the wedding from start to finish.

3. 3
   noun

   A very thin layer of something covering a surface.

   A thin film of dust covered the old piano.

Common collocations

• short film Adjective + noun
• film a scene Verb + noun
• make a film Verb + noun
• watch a film Verb + noun
• documentary film Adjective + noun
• feature film Adjective + noun
• film shoot Adjective + noun
• silent film Adjective + noun
• direct a film Verb + noun
• release a film Verb + noun

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,…

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