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Film

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

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Verb group 6

Photograph 84% connected

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

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Photograph 84% connected

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Snap 84% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snap 84% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Broader term 12

Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Record 76% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Wrap 76% connected

To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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Wrapper 76% connected

One who, or that which, wraps.

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Wrapping 76% connected

of Wrap

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Narrower term 11

Documentary 76% connected

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

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Episode 76% connected

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digr…

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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Musical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical propo…

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Negative 76% connected

Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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Positive 76% connected

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

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Reel 76% connected

A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Scum 76% connected

The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; als…

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Slick 76% connected

See Schlich.

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Derivationally related 4

Celluloid 74% connected

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate cor…

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Celluloid 74% connected

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate cor…

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Gauzy 74% connected

Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

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Gauzy 74% connected

Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

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Component part 6

Caption 70% connected

A caviling; a sophism.

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Credit 70% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Episode 70% connected

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digr…

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Scene 70% connected

The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the st…

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Sequence 70% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Shot 70% connected

of Shoot

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Synonym 6

Celluloid 92% connected

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate cor…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flick 92% connected

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pic 92% connected

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Picture 92% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shoot 92% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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