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Film vs Phoneidoscope - What's the difference?

film | phoneidoscope |

As nouns the difference between film and phoneidoscope

is that film is photographic film while phoneidoscope is an instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means it consists of a tube across whose end is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give coloured bands, whose form and position are affected by sonorous vibrations.

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 ----

    phoneidoscope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across whose end is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give coloured bands, whose form and position are affected by sonorous vibrations.
  • (Webster 1913)