Originally and chiefly: a device used for recording motion pictures and projecting them on to a screen, invented in the 1890s by Auguste and Louis…

Originally Film. The process or technique of capturing acted or real-life action with a cinematographic camera; (also) a film produced in this way…

Films or movies collectively; films or movies considered as an industry, art form, or type of entertainment. In early use also: exhibitions or shows…

In plural (usually with the). The screening of motion pictures in a cinema; motion pictures as an industry, art form, or type of entertainment.

the screen in a cinema; (figurative) motion pictures as an industry, art form, or type of entertainment, the movies (chiefly with the).

A film. the pics: a showing of a film; the film industry, the cinema. Cf. picture, n. 4b.

Chiefly with the. The screen in a cinema. Hence figurative: motion pictures collectively; cinema, the movies.

As a mass noun: the making of films considered as an art form, genre, or industry. Also sometimes in plural. Cf. cinema, n. 2a.

In plural. (a) The cinema as an industry, an art form, or a form of entertainment; the movies; (b) (usually with the) a showing of a film in a…

British. In plural. With the. A showing of a film in a cinema.

Originally U.S. Chiefly with the. Film or television as a medium, genre, or industry. Cf. off-screen, adj. adv., on-screen, adv. adj., on the screen…

(chiefly with the) cinema considered as an artistic discipline.

In extended use: film; the cinema as a genre.

a cinematographic projection screen covered with metallic paint to produce a highly reflective silver-coloured surface; usually transferred, the…

A film; also in plural, the cinema. colloquial. (Cf. flicker, n.3 3.)

In plural = flick, n.1 1e. colloquial.

Films, pictures. Formerly also: a single film. Cf. pic, n.4 2.