| 单词 | celluloid |
| 释义 | celluloid (once / 9842 pages) 1n 2adj Celluloid is a type of plastic that’s transparent and flammable. Until recently, most movies were filmed on celluloid. Celluloid is a name for film used in shooting movies. Because of its use in making films, this term came to stand for movies in general. Its days in the projection room are now pretty much finished — due to the rise of digital filming — but the figurative meaning lives on, wherever stars aspire. For example, you could say a TV actor was making the move from the small screen to celluloid. Besides movies, celluloid is used in shooting x-rays. WORD FAMILYcelluloid: celluloids USAGE EXAMPLESIt tells the story of scrappy young people striving to make it big in the city of celluloid dreams. Time(Dec 01, 2016) There were other experiments with frame rates in the celluloid era. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) Although this retrospective, which continues through Nov. 29, isn’t all celluloid, many titles are showing in their original 35-millimeter format. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) 1 1n 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 Hyper thermoplastic, thermoplastic resin a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled 2n a medium that disseminates moving pictures 2theater pieces transferred to celluloid Syn|Hypo|Hyper cinema, film silver screen the film industry medium a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information adj artificial as if portrayed in a film a novel with flat celluloid characters Syn synthetic artificial, unreal contrived by art rather than nature |
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