• IPA: /fɪlm/
• (North East England, Ireland) IPA: /ˈfɪləm/

film

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

   a clear plastic film for wrapping food

   • 1712, Alexander Pope, Messiah:

     He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.

2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A movie.
4. (cinema, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:

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

• (motion picture) movie

• French: pellicule
• German: Film
• Italian: film, pellicola
• Portuguese: película, filme (of plastic)
• Russian: плёнка
• Spanish: película

• French: pellicule
• German: Film
• Italian: film, pellicola
• Portuguese: filme
• Russian: плёнка
• Spanish: película

film (films, present participle filming; past and past participle filmed)

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

   A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

   I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.

2. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

   • It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

• French: filmer, tourner
• German: filmen, drehen
• Italian: girare, filmare
• Portuguese: filmar
• Russian: снима́ть
• Spanish: filmar, rodar, cinematografiar