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Celluloid

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Noun

1. celluloid

highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics

2. celluloid, cinema, film

a medium that disseminates moving pictures

Example Sentences:
'theater pieces transferred to celluloid'
'this story would be good cinema'
'film coverage of sporting events'

Adjective

3. celluloid, synthetic

artificial as if portrayed in a film

Example Sentences:
'a novel with flat celluloid characters'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Celluloid

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noun
1. 
a flammable thermoplastic material consisting of cellulose nitrate mixed with a plasticizer, usually camphor: used in sheets, rods, and tubes for making a wide range of articles
2. 
a. 
a cellulose derivative used for coating film
b. 
one of the transparent sheets on which the constituent drawings of an animated film are prepared
c. 
a transparent sheet used as an overlay in artwork
d. 
cinema film

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Celluloid

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noun
1. 
a tough, flammable thermoplastic made from pyroxylin and camphor, used, esp. formerly, for toilet articles, novelties, etc.
2. 
films
from use of celluloid, esp. formerly, for photographic films

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Celluloid

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n.
1. A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.
2.
a. Motion-picture film: "a strange, anachronistic sight: theater pieces transferred to celluloid" (David Ansen).
b. The cinema; motion pictures: "There are no heroes but in celluloid" (Charles Langbridge Morgan).
adj.
1. Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.
2. Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.
3. Artificial; synthetic: a novel with flat, celluloid characters.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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