film festival | a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year) |
moviemaking movie making film making | the production of movies |
film editing cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
thin-shelled mussel | mussel with thin fragile shells having only rudimentary hinge teeth |
ballast resistor ballast barretter | a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) |
film | a thin coating or layer, the table was covered with a film of dust |
film photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives or transparencies |
film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
film advance | a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector |
magneto magnetoelectric machine | a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine |
motion-picture film movie film cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movie projector cine projector film projector | projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures |
orthochromatic film | a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light |
panchromatic film | photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red) |
resistor resistance | an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current |
rheostat variable resistor | resistor for regulating current |
roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
cling film clingfilm Saran Wrap | a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself, used for wrapping food |
soap film | a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap |
sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
thermistor thermal resistor | a semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature, can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit |
Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
metrology | the scientific study of measurement |
film cinema celluloid | a medium that disseminates moving pictures, theater pieces transferred to celluloid, this story would be good cinema, film coverage of sporting events |
a movie film picture moving picture moving-picture show motion picture motion-picture show picture show pic flick | 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 |
feature feature film | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater, the feature tonight is `Casablanca' |
collage film | a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage |
documentary docudrama documentary film infotainment | a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event |
film noir | a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters, film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the s |
pilot program pilot film pilot | a program exemplifying a contemplated series, intended to attract sponsors |
film clip | a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast |
film company | a company that makes, advertises, and distributes movies |
film industry movie industry | the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies |
film director director | the person who directs the making of a film |
film maker filmmaker film producer movie maker | a producer of motion pictures |
film star movie star | a star who plays leading roles in the cinema |
screenwriter film writer | someone who writes screenplays |
thin person skin and bones scrag | a person who is unusually thin and scrawny |
bilberry thin-leaved bilberry mountain blue berry Viccinium membranaceum | erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries |
white stringybark thin-leaved stringybark Eucalyptusd eugenioides | stringybark having white wood |
filmy fern film fern | any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leaves |
thin air | nowhere to be found in a giant void, it vanished into thin air |
reduce melt off lose weight slim slenderize thin slim down | take off weight |
dilute thin thin out reduce cut | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture, cut bourbon |
thin out | make sparse, thin out the young plants |
thin out | become sparser, Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out |
thin | make thin or thinner, Thin the solution |
thin | lose thickness, become thin or thinner |
wear wear off wear out wear down wear thin | deteriorate through use or stress, The constant friction wore out the cloth |
film shoot take | make a film or photograph of something, take a scene, shoot a movie |