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Celluloid   /sˈɛləlˌɔɪd/   Listen
Celluloid

noun
1.
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.
2.
A medium that disseminates moving pictures.  Synonyms: cinema, film.  "This story would be good cinema" , "Film coverage of sporting events"






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"Celluloid" Quotes from Famous Books



... celluloid sheets, which, when cut into proper strips, is dipped in hot water, for bending purposes, and it readily retains ...
— Aeroplanes • J. S. Zerbe***

... Mr. Tutt with a significant gleam in his eye. He had driven in the knife to the hilt and twisted it round and round. Angelo had almost as much chance as the proverbial celluloid cat. Mr. Tutt felt actually sick. He did not look at the jury as they went out. They would not be long—and he could hardly face the thought of their return. Never in his long experience had he found himself in such a desperate situation. Heretofore there ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... pond, take a cigar-box, paint the lower quarter of it dark green, and the upper part shaded into light blue, for sky. Glue a piece of glass or else carwindow celluloid level across this near the bottom. This is for water. Hide all the back and side edges of the glass with clay banks as described in the Monkey-hunt, or with moss glued on. Put a fine black thread to the Fish's back, another to his tail, and hang him level above the water by fastening the threads ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... long-handled oval of yellow celluloid. Next Chiquita swam lazily downward, made a brief scarlet flutter on the beach, seized an elaborate double mirror set in gilded wood. Peachy followed; she chose a heart-shaped glass, ebony-framed. Last of all, Julia came floating slowly down. She took the only one that was left: it was, ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore

... openings. Martin was thankful when he felt the collar buttons in their holes. His salt and pepper suit was of a stiff, unyielding material, and the first time he had worn it the creases had vanished never to return. Before putting on his celluloid collar, he spat on it and smeared it off with the tail of his shirt. A recalcitrant metal shaper insisted on peeking from under his lapels, and his ready-made tie with its two grey satin-covered cardboard wings ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

... is found in the observed fact that very many substances become markedly phosphorescent at low temperatures. Thus, according to Professor Dewar, "gelatine, celluloid, paraffine, ivory, horn, and india-rubber become distinctly luminous, with a bluish or greenish phosphorescence, after cooling to—180 deg. and being stimulated by the electric light." The same thing is true, in varying degrees, of alcohol, nitric acid, ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

... Ursula, "let's make a beginning." She produced a silver pencil and some celluloid tablets that are supposed to look like ivory. "What first?" ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 • Various

... wisely and went to work. I bought little round celluloid disks with mine; she bought land of some sort with hers. She's a newspaper woman, and the best in the world—or at least the best in Seattle. She wrote that big snow-slide story for The Review last fall. ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach



Words linked to "Celluloid" :   cellulose nitrate, nitrocotton, thermoplastic resin, business, business enterprise, MacGuffin, artistic production, synthetic, guncotton, camphor, nitrocellulose, film, artificial, cut-in, art, insert, artistic creation, commercial enterprise, McGuffin, thermoplastic, unreal, silver screen, medium



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