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PLASTIC FILM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
Synonyms:
film; plastic film
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("plastic film" is a kind of...):
flat solid; sheet (a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width)
wrap; wrapper; wrapping (the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plastic film"):
Polaroid ((trade mark) a plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare)
shrink-wrap (the clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something)
