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celluloid
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See also: celluloïd
English
Etymology
Former trademark of Celluloid Manufacturing Company; from cellulose + -oid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛljəˌlɔɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
celluloid (countable and uncountable, plural celluloids)
- Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
- Coordinate terms: cellulose acetate, cellophane
- 1894 June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph: Account of the Invention, article in Century Magazine, Volume 48, Issue 2,
- Then followed some experiments with drums, over which sheets of sensitized celluloid film were drawn, the edges being pressed into a narrow slot in the surface, similar in construction to the old tin-foil phonograph.
- 1910, Stephen Leacock, “The Conjurer's Revenge”, in Literary Lapses:
- "And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."
- (figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.
- 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
- Celluloid railway comedy was hardly to appear again until the mid-thirties and, later, in Britain.
- 2001 August 14, Riki Wilchins, “Gender on celluloid”, in The Advocate, page 26:
- (obsolete) An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
- 'What with that bearded Assyrian bull in London, and this Thug down here, who has ruined my clean celluloid, you seem to be keeping queer company, Ted Malone.'
Derived terms
Translations
variety of thermoplastics
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