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Film vs Direct - What's the difference?

film | direct |

As verbs the difference between film and direct

is that film is to record a motion picture on photographic film while direct is to manage, control, steer.

As a noun film

is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

As an adjective direct is

straight, constant, without interruption.

As an adverb direct is

directly.

film

English

(wikipedia film)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
    • a clear plastic film for wrapping food
  • * Alexander Pope
    • He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
  • (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • A motion picture.
  • A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .

    Synonyms

    * (motion picture) movie

    Derived terms

    * filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on film

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To record a motion picture on photographic film
    • "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
  • To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
  • *
    • It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

    Descendants

    * Japanese: * Lao: * Thai:

    Anagrams

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    direct

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Straight, constant, without interruption.
  • Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
    • the most direct route between two buildings
  • Straightforward; sincere.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be even and direct with me.
  • Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  • * John Locke
    • He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
  • * Hallam
    • a direct and avowed interference with elections
  • In the line of descent; not collateral.
    • a descendant in the direct line
  • (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.

    • Antonyms

    * indirect

    Derived terms

    * direct action * direct current * direct flight * direct initiative * direct object * direct quote

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Directly.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:
    • Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To manage, control, steer.
    • to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
  • To aim (something) at (something else).
    • They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
    He directed his question to the room in general.
  • To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
    • He directed me to the left-hand road.
  • * Lubbock
    • the next points to which I will direct your attention
  • To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
    • She directed them to leave immediately.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
  • (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
    • to direct a letter

    Related terms

    * direction * directly * director * adroit * dirge * dirigible * dress

    Anagrams

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