filming

film  (flm)

n.

1. A thin skin or membrane.

2. A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.

3. A thin covering or coating: a film of dust on the piano.

4. A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.

5.

a. A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.

b. A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.

6.

a. A movie.

b. Movies considered as a group.

7. A coating of magnetic alloys on glass used in manufacturing computer storage devices.

v. filmed, film·ing, films

v.tr.

1. To cover with or as if with a film.

2. To make a movie of or based on: film a rocket launch; film a scene from a ballet.

v.intr.

1. To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film: The window filmed over with moisture.

2. To make or shoot scenes for a movie.

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[Middle English, from Old English filmen; see pel-³ in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: One indication of the gulf between us and our Victorian predecessors is that the Oxford English Dictionary fascicle containing the word film, published in 1896, does not have the sense "a motion picture." The one hint of the future to be found among still familiar older senses of the word, such as "a thin skin or membranous coating" or "an abnormal thin coating on the cornea," is the sense of film used in photography, a sense referring to a coating of material, such as gelatin, that could substitute for a photographic plate or be used on a plate or on photographic paper. Thus a word that has been with us since Old English times took on this new use, first recorded in 1845, which has since developed and now refers to an art form, a sense first recorded in 1920.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

filming - the act of making a film             cinematography, motion-picture photography photography, picture taking - the act of taking and printing photographs take - the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption animation - the making of animated cartoons

Translations

filming [ˈfɪlmɪŋ] N → rodaje m, filmación f

filming [ˈfɪlmɪŋ] n → tournage m
film-maker filmmaker [ˈfɪlmmeɪkə^r] n (mainly British) → cinéaste mf
film noir [ˌfɪlmˈnwɑː^r] n → film m noir
film première n → première f
film rating n (British) système de classification des films
film rights npl → droits mpl d'adaptation cinématographique
film set n → plateau m de tournage
film star n → vedette f de cinéma
He's a film star → C'est une vedette de cinéma.
film studio n → studio m (de cinéma)
film test n → bout m d'essai

filming [ˈfɪlmɪŋ] n filming started last week → hanno cominciato a girare (il film) la settimana scorsa