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Definition of Filmlike
1. resembling film [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filmlike
Literary usage of Filmlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"Some have smooth, dull, filmlike surfaces, others are glazed. These plaques are
more numerous on the right side. They occupy sulci of the frontal and ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"The impurities that make a coal difficult to wash are thin bands of friable shale;
bony coal; carbonaceous shale; thin filmlike flakes of pyrite, calcite, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"The initial stages present the same objective symptoms as albuminurie retinitis :
Hyperemia, serous exudation, a gray or bluish-gray, filmlike veiling of ..."
4. Coal Washing by Ernst Prochaska (1921)
"The impurities that make a coal difficult to wash are thin bands of friable shale;
bony coal; carbonaceous shale; thin filmlike flakes of pyrite, calcite, ..."
5. Travels in Europe and America by Charles Edward Bolton, Sarah Knowles Bolton (1903)
"Many of the basins have exquisitely fretted rims; the colors of their wavy filmlike
borders are often very beautiful. It is not difficult to climb to the ..."
6. The Human Cobweb: A Romance of Peking by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1910)
"To the six people watching her expectantly, she seemed in her white filmlike
dress, with her fluffy curls and her strange, staring eyes, almost like a ..."
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