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Film vs. Cassette — What's the Difference?

Film vs. Cassette — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Film and Cassette

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a work of visual art used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound, and more rarely, other sensory stimulations.

Cassette

A small flat case containing two reels and a length of magnetic tape that winds between them, often used in audio and video recorders and players and as a medium for storing data in digital form.

Film

A thin skin or membrane.

Cassette

A lightproof cartridge containing photographic film or plates, used in specially designed cameras.

Film

A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
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Cassette

A cartridge for holding and winding typewriter or printer ribbon while in the machine.

Film

A thin covering or coating
A film of dust on the piano.

Cassette

A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.

Film

A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.

Cassette

Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner

Film

A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.

Cassette

(photography) A lightproof container for photographic film.

Film

A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.

Cassette

(genetics) A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.

Film

A movie, especially one recorded on film.

Cassette

(cycling) A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.

Film

The presentation of such a work.

Cassette

A saggar ceramic container used in a kiln

Film

A long, narrative movie.

Cassette

Same as Seggar.

Film

Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.

Cassette

A small case to hold a removable part of some mechanism, designed for convenience in inserting and removing the working part. Most commonly referring to a tape cassette, made mostly of plastic, which holds a reel of magnetic tape for tape players or tape recorders or video cassette recorders. The term may refer, as for tape cassettes, to the integrated case plus tape, or sometimes only to the case itself separate from the contents.

Film

To cover with or as if with a film.

Cassette

A container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video

Film

To record on film or video using a movie camera
Film a rocket launch.
Film a scene from a ballet.

Film

To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film
The window filmed over with moisture.

Film

To make or shoot scenes for a movie.

Film

A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
A clear plastic film for wrapping food

Film

(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.

Film

A movie.

Film

Cinema; movies as a group.

Film

A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

Film

(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.

Film

(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Film

(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Film

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.

Film

Hence, any thin layer covering a surface.

Film

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

Film

The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.

Film

A flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.

Film

A motion picture.

Film

The art of making motion pictures; - used mostly in the phrase the film.

Film

A thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.

Film

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Film

To make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace.

Film

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;
They went to a movie every Saturday night
The film was shot on location

Film

A medium that disseminates moving pictures;
Theater pieces transferred to celluloid
This story would be good cinema
Film coverage of sporting events

Film

A thin coating or layer;
The table was covered with a film of dust

Film

A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

Film

Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

Film

Make a film or photograph of something;
Take a scene
Shoot a movie

Film

Record in film;
The coronation was filmed

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