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Photograph vs Film - What's the difference?

photograph | film |

As nouns the difference between photograph and film

is that photograph is ("photographer") while film is photographic film.

photograph

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
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    Derived terms

    * photo * photographic * photography * photographer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a photograph of.
  • * Hamerton
  • He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
  • * Lady D. Hardy
  • He is photographed on my mind.
  • To take photographs.
  • To appear in a photograph.
  • She photographs well. The camera ''loves'' her.

    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.

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