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MOTION-PICTURE FILM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool; to be used in a movie camera
Synonyms:
cine-film; motion-picture film; movie film
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("motion-picture film" is a kind of...):
film; photographic film (photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "motion-picture film"):
sound film (motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it)