filmed Definition

film
noun

1. A strip of thin flexible plastic or other substance, coated so as to be light-sensitive and exposed inside a camera to produce still or moving pictures.
2. A series of images, often of moving objects, recorded and edited to tell a story, present a subject, etc, and shown in the cinema (also called motion picture, cinema film, movie), or shown on TV or video (also called TV movie).

Thesaurus: movie, video, motion picture, movie, cinema, cinema film, photoplay, flick (slang).
3. A fine skin, membrane, or coating over something.

Thesaurus: gauze, tissue, membrane, transparency, haze, partition, veil, screen, cobweb, mist, cloud.
4. A thin sheet of plastic used for wrapping.

Example: clingfilm

verb filmed, filming

tr & intr
1. To record any series of images, usually moving objects, using a TV camera, cine camera, video camera, camcorder, etc.

Thesaurus: photograph, record, take, shoot.
intr
2. The overall activity of setting up a film set, directing actors and recording material on camera to be edited at a later stage.

Etymology: 19c in modern senses: Anglo-Saxon filmen membrane.

Phrasal Verb: film over

To become covered with a film noun 3.