Synonyms of the word celluloid


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celluloid

  • n. Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic…
  • n. (figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.

artificial

  • adj. Man-made; of artifice.
  • adj. False, misleading.
  • adj. Unnatural.

cinema

  • n. (countable) A film.
  • n. (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house.
  • n. (film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.
  • n. (film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.
  • n. (film, uncountable) The art of making films and movies.

film

  • n. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
  • n. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • n. A movie.
  • n. (film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.
  • n. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
  • v. To record a motion picture on photographic film.
  • v. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

medium

  • n. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum,…
  • n. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
  • n. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
  • n. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing…
  • n. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
  • n. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
  • n. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
  • n. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.
  • n. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
  • n. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
  • n. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
  • n. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
  • n. A middle place or degree.
  • n. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
  • n. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
  • adj. (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
  • adj. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
  • adj. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still…
  • adv. to a medium extent.

synthetic

  • adj. Of, or relating to synthesis.
  • adj. (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical…
  • adj. Artificial, not genuine.
  • adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
  • adj. (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate…
  • n. A synthetic compound.

thermoplastic

  • adj. softening when heated and hardening when cooled.
  • n. A plastic with this property.

unreal

  • adj. fake; not real.
  • adj. (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

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