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 |
blastoderm germinal disc blastodisc germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
audio CD audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) |
CD-R compact disc recordable CD-WO compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
compact disk compact disc CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
disk disc | a flat circular plate |
disk brake disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
disk drive disc drive hard drive Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
disk harrow disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
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 |
hard disc hard disk fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
magnetic disk magnetic disc disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
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 |
optical disk optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
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) |
phonograph record phonograph recording record disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
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 |
Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
intervertebral disc intervertebral disk | a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
blind spot optic disc optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
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 |
disk pack disc pack | (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device |
film company | a company that makes, advertises, and distributes movies |
film industry movie industry | the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies |
disk space disc space | (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk |
disk jockey disc jockey dj | a person who announces and plays popular recorded music |
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 |
filmy fern film fern | any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leaves |
disk disc saucer | something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate, the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky |