film
verb/fɪlm/
/fɪlm/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they film | /fɪlm/ /fɪlm/ |
| he / she / it films | /fɪlmz/ /fɪlmz/ |
| past simple filmed | /fɪlmd/ /fɪlmd/ |
| past participle filmed | /fɪlmd/ /fɪlmd/ |
| -ing form filming | /ˈfɪlmɪŋ/ /ˈfɪlmɪŋ/ |
- to make a film of a story or a real event; to record somebody/something on film
- They are filming in Manhattan right now.
- film something/somebody The show was filmed on location in New York.
- It took them six weeks to film the documentary.
- That day, we filmed the scene in the church.
- film somebody/something doing something A young boy was filmed by the security camera stealing a pair of jeans.
Extra ExamplesTopics Film and theatrea2, TV, radio and newsa2- The controversial experiment involved secretly filming a group of children.
- The serial was filmed on location in Italy.
- fast-paced, well acted and beautifully filmed in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- secretly
- on location
- beautifully filmed
Word OriginOld English filmen ‘membrane’, of West Germanic origin.Definitions on the go
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