celluloid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

   “"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."”

2. isim The genre of cinema; film.

   “Celluloid railway comedy was hardly to appear again until the mid-thirties and, later, in Britain.”

3. isim An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.

   “'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.'”