(n.) A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
(2) Enjoying soup and celluloid, Gilliam little realised he had a year's arguing before Universal would release Brazil in America (on Christmas Day 1985).
(3) Abrams is currently shooting Star Wars: Episode VII on celluloid, and Nolan has been using film for his upcoming space drama, Interstellar.
(4) Methyl methacrylate completely dissolved specimens of celluloid tubes.
(5) The smoothest surface was obtained with celluloid strip and the most acceptable contour obtained with preformed matrix.
(6) As a fleeting glimpse of the Old Weird America of tent-shows and carnivals and rural backwardness that was long gone before anyone thought to commit it to celluloid.
(7) Based on Domscheit-Berg's own book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, it's being tipped as a celluloid document of Assange's meteoric rise into the public consciousness.
(8) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(9) Close up on his mouth, screaming in horror, and the celluloid bursts into flames in disgust.
(10) Not since Daniel Craig emerged from the sea in those swimming trunks, has British masculinity been so out and proud on celluloid as it has been in Cooper's recent work.
(11) Adaptations Don Juan and The Corsair were both filmed in melodramatic black and white; the Byronic hero spawned a thousand celluloid imitations - Gabriel Byrne is convincingly Byronic as Byron in Ken Russell's hallucinogenic and slightly laughable Gothic (1986).
(12) Various instruments, such as paper or celluloid strips of platinum loops, can be used to collect the content of the gingival sulcus.
(13) All the samples were better than the group polimerized with celluloid matrix strip.
(14) A square of skin and panniculus carnosus measuring 200 mm2 was excised from the back of each animal, and the amount of wound contraction was determined by a computer program from the drawings on celluloid overlays done weekly.
(15) Women remained dramatically under-represented in 2013 despite films such as Hunger Games 2 and Gravity heralding a supposed banner year for female actors, the study, titled “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World”, found.
(16) Caps, made of lucite, celluloid, or metal, are used chiefly in Germany, and have the advantage of being left in place for days at a time.
(17) There's a film conceit that says that facts or reality don't really matter in the context of a coherent celluloid world.
(18) "The real speed comes from the cutters [editors] and what they do with the celluloid," he said.
(19) Commit Before digital animation took over, Japanese anime was made the old-fashioned way using paint on sheets of celluloid to create "cels".
(20) One of the best scenes in Saving Mr Banks shows Travers, played by Thompson, overwhelmed with horror to find that her LA hotel room has been stuffed with soft cuddly toys from the Disney Corporation's celluloid bestiary, including Winnie-the-Pooh.
Film
Definition:
(n.) A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
(n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(3) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(4) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
(5) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(6) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(7) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(8) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(9) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(10) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(11) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
(14) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(15) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(16) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(17) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(18) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(19) In 67 patinets with abnormal mammograms, breast angiography was performed using a "lo-dose vaccum packed film screen system".
(20) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.