PLASTIC FILM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

Synonyms:

film; plastic film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("plastic film" is a kind of...):

flat solid; sheet (a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width)

wrap; wrapper; wrapping (the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plastic film"):

Polaroid ((trade mark) a plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare)

shrink-wrap (the clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something)