Celluloid

(noun.) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics.

(adj.) artificial as if portrayed in a film; 'a novel with flat celluloid characters' .

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• Pyroxiline, xyloidine, and celluloid are allied products, which have found endless applications in toilet articles and for other uses, as a substitute for hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Write them a very strong _Salvoconducto_ to the _Estado Mayor_ of General Golz for me to sign, he said to the officer in the green celluloid eyeshade. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Glass plates are heavy and inconvenient to carry, so that celluloid films have almost entirely taken their place, at least for outdoor work. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Hard rubber, celluloid, glass, soap, paper, and lots of others, all have to deal with amorphous substances, as to which comparatively little has been really settled. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The officer looked at him with his droopy eyes shaded by the green celluloid. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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