film vs scab

film

verb
  • To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. 

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

  • To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. 

noun
  • A medium used to capture images in a camera. 

  • A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb. 

  • A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally. 

  • A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. 

scab

verb
  • To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. 

  • To remove part of a surface (from). 

  • To act as a strikebreaker. 

  • To beg (for), to cadge or bum. 

  • To become covered by a scab or scabs. 

noun
  • The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. 

  • The scabies. 

  • A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting. 

  • Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus). 

  • A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold. 

  • A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. 

  • Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots. 

  • An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. 

  • Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies. 

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