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What is the difference between film and membrane?

film | membrane |

As nouns the difference between film and membrane

is that film is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity while membrane is a flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).

As a verb film

is to record a motion picture on photographic film.

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

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    membrane

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
  • A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
  • A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
  • Derived terms

    * neomembrane