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Definition: Filmed |
FilmedAdjective1. Recorded on film; made into a movie; "a filmed documentary"; "the filmed version of the novel". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filmed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references) |
Crosswords: Filmed |
| English words defined with "filmed": outtake ♦ screen test. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "filmed": camera control operator, camino, color-television console monitor, Cormoran' ♦ DOCUMENT PREPARER, MICROFILMING ♦ found footage ♦ vÃa, video engineer, VIDEO OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A bomb falling down a chimney. Let me tell you something: I was in the building where we filmed that with a 10-inch model made out of Legos (Wag the Dog; writing credit: Hilary Henkin) Behave yourself, James, we're being filmed! (From Russia with Love; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Johanna Harwood) No. Oh, James! Behave yourself, we are being filmed! (From Russia with Love; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Johanna Harwood) He was with us from start to finish as we filmed his story (The Ryan White Story; writing credit: Phil Penningroth;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Kauai beach where "From Here to Eternity" was filmed. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Caption: M.R. Hutchison, Seated at Table in Courtyard, Writing Instructions for Packing and Unpacking Phonographs, as the Process Is Performed and Filmed by Workers Before Him; West Orange, NJ; Fall, 1912; {29.410/133} (jpg). |
![]() | Margaret Gorman (Miss America 1921), and Stephen(?) Fegan being filmed for a burlesque on the burning of Rome by the Washington Producing Co. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Reruns : a multi-billion dollar extravaganza, filmed on location on the shores of the Potomac, starring Jimmy Carter ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Shepherds 4" by Ginger Garvey Commentary: "Sheep and shepherds filmed and photographed for a Christmas program." | "Trim Castle 7" by Matt Williams Commentary: "Trim Castle, Trim, Ireland. The film "Braveheart" with Mel Gibson was filmed here, with the restored ruins doubling for the city of York (amongst other things) ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The heart and blood vessels are then filmed while the heart pumps. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | A local policeman tried to intervene and explain that it was permitted to film outside the mosque, but a man (identified in press reports as the director of the mosque complex) said that the mosque was the territory of Saudi Arabia and could not be filmed without permission. (references) |
Bulgaria | Media representatives will be obliged to cover Cabinet activities from a specified location near the Council, only the first few minutes of Council sessions are to be filmed, and media will have to nominate a maximum of five reporters to report from the Council, rather than simply entering with their press cards. (references) | |
Minorities | Liberia | The rituals involved have been reported in some cases to entail eating body parts, and the underlying religious beliefs may be related to incidents during the civil war in which faction leaders sometimes ate (and in which one faction leader had himself filmed eating) body parts of former leaders of rival factions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Filmed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 59.06% of the time. "Filmed" is used about 342 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 59.06% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 30.41% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.23% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 342 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "filmed": filmed-entertainment, filmed-in-a-fortnight. | |
Ending with "filmed": beautifully-filmed, blind-filmed, cling-filmed, delicate-filmed, micro-filmed, oil-filmed, over-filmed, pre-filmed, secretly-filmed, sweat-filmed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "filmed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 摄制 (filming). (various references) | |
Danish | tilskynde til en mere omfattende fremvisning og udsendelse af et stoerre udvalg af information optaget paa film og baand (to encourage the wider showing and broadcasting of a greater variety of recorded and filmed information), information gennem film,radio og fjernsyn (filmed and broadcast information). (various references) | |
Dutch | gefilmde en uitgezonden informatie (filmed and broadcast information), de vertoning en uitzending op grotere schaal bevorderen van een rijkere verscheidenheid van opgenomen en gefilmde informatie (to encourage the wider showing and broadcasting of a greater variety of recorded and filmed information). (various references) | |
French | filmai, filmés, filmées, filmé, filmâmes, filma. (various references) | |
German | filmte, verfilmte. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוסרט. (various references) | |
Italian | informazione filmata e radioteletrasmessa (filmed and broadcast information), incoraggiare una più estesa proiezione in sala e diffusione alla radio e alla televisione di una maggiore varietà di informazioni registrate e filmate (to encourage the wider showing and broadcasting of a greater variety of recorded and filmed information). (various references) | |
Korean | 촬영하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilmedfay.(various references) | |
Spanish | información filmada, radiodifundida y televisada (filmed and broadcast information), estimular la más amplia presentacion y radiodifusión de la mayor variedad de información filmada y grabada (to encourage the wider showing and broadcasting of a greater variety of recorded and filmed information). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "filmed": microfilmed, refilmed, unfilmed. (additional references) | |
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"Filmed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filme, filmo, filmset, Filnet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "filmed" (pronounced fi"lmd) |
| 3 | -l m d | overwhelmed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-m" | |
-1 letter: felid, field, filed, flied, limed. | |
-2 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, diel, dime, file, film, fled, idem, idle, lied, lief, life, lime, meld, mild, mile. | |
-3 letters: del, die, dim, eld, elf, elm, emf, fed, fem, fid, fie, fil, led, lei, lid, lie, med, mel, mid, mil. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, ef, el, em, id, if, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-m" | |
+1 letter: midlife. | |
+2 letters: fulmined, inflamed, medflies, midfield, misfield, misfiled, refilmed, unfilmed. | |
+3 letters: amplified, feudalism, flemished, midfields, minefield, misfields, mollified, remindful, semifluid. | |
+4 letters: damselfish, defilement, emulsified, federalism, feudalisms, formalised, formalized, formidable, formulized, fulminated, informedly, manifolded, midfielder, minefields, misfielded, modifiable, semifeudal, semifluids, simplified, slipformed. | |
+5 letters: confirmedly, damselflies, defilements, deformalize, exemplified, federalisms, flimflammed, microfilmed, midfielders, mindfulness, misfielding, solemnified, sulfonamide, unamplified. | |
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