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Film vs Mist - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between film and mist

is that film is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity while mist is water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

As verbs the difference between film and mist

is that film is to record a motion picture on photographic film while mist is to form mist.

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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    mist

    English

    (wikipedia mist)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
  • It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
  • (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  • There was an oily mist on the lens .
  • (figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  • * Dryden
  • His passion cast a mist before his sense.

    Derived terms

    * misty * mists of time * red mist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form mist.
  • It's misting this morning.
  • To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
  • I mist my tropical plants every morning.
  • To cover with a mist.
  • The lens was misted .
    (Shakespeare)
  • (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
  • My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

    Derived terms

    * mist over

    Anagrams

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