PELLICLE Synonyms

• a natural object that covers or envelops

• an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)

• the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it

• the act of protecting something by covering it

• the work of applying something

• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

• a medium that disseminates moving pictures

• photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

• a thin coating or layer

• a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

• make a film or photograph of something

• record in film

• single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

• a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

• an abstract place usually conceived as having depth

• a hen that lays eggs

• thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

• make or form a layer

• a thin pliable sheet of material

• a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants

• any broad thin expanse or surface

• paper used for writing or printing

• bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

• (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

• newspaper with half-size pages

• a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

• (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

• a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

• come down as if in sheets

• cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping