Film

1. A movie. They all went to see the new film.
2. Movies considered as a group. The film industry has suffered hard times in the depression.
3. A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic. The food was covered with a plastic film.
4. To make a movie of or based on. They filmed a scene from a ballet.
5. A tin sheet or strip of flexible material, covered with photosensitive emulsion used to make photographic negatives. Digital cameras do not use film; the old ones did.