Film vs Tape - What's the difference?
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A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
* Alexander Pope
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
A motion picture.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
* Shakespeare
To record a motion picture on photographic film
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
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Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus
(trading , from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
To bind with adhesive tape.
To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
(informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
As nouns the difference between film and tape
is that film is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity while tape is flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.As verbs the difference between film and tape
is that film is to record a motion picture on photographic film while tape is to bind with adhesive tape.film
English
(wikipedia film)Noun
(en noun)- a clear plastic film for wrapping food
- He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
- Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .
Synonyms
* (motion picture) movieDerived terms
* filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on filmVerb
(en verb)- "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Descendants
* Japanese: * Lao: * Thai:Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----tape
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hand me some tape . I need to fix a tear in this paper.
- After the party there was tape all over the place.
- Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
- Did you get that on tape ?
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
- Don’t fight the tape .
- His pass was right on the tape .
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * adhesive tape * cassette tape * cut red tape * double-sided tape * duck tape * duck tape * duct tape * gaffer tape * gray tape * magnetic tape * masking tape * on tape * police tape * red tape * scotch tape * Sellotape * sex tape * tale of the tape * tapeworm * tape measure * tape recorder * ticker tape * sticky tape * video tapeVerb
- Can you tape that together, please?
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
- I've finally got this thing taped.