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Filmed

Definition: Filmed

Filmed

Adjective

1. 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": outtakescreen test. (references)
Specialty definitions using "filmed": camera control operator, camino, color-television console monitor, Cormoran'DOCUMENT PREPARER, MICROFILMINGfound footagevía, video engineer, VIDEO OPERATOR. (references)

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Modern Usage: Filmed

DomainUsage

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

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Filmed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews (reference)

  • Enser's Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays from Which Films Have Been Made 1928-2001 (reference)

  • Filmed Books and Plays (reference)

  • Filmed Television Drama 1952-1958 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Filmed

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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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Digital Photo Gallery: Filmed
 

"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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Filmed

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Filmed

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)59.06%20221,454
Lexical Verb (past tense)30.41%10431,955
Adjective (general or positive)10.23%3558,339
Noun (proper)0.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%342N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Filmed

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Filmed

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

filmed peak twin where

12

filmed having sex

3

filmed

11

filmed in movie new york

2

filmed francisco in movie san

5

filmed in movie texas

2

filmed girl

5

filmed in minnesota movie

2

choice eugene filmed oregon

5

creek dawsons filmed where

2

filmed first sport

4

entertainment filmed fox

2

chicago filmed in movie

4

filmed in movie philadelphia

2

filmed girl i

4

city filmed in movie new york

2

being filmed movie

3

filmed in movie seattle

2

entertainment filmed polygram

3

arizona filmed in movie

2

filmed hotel paradise where

3

filmed hawaii in movie

2

filmed john juan movie river san wayne

3

dancing dirty filmed where

2

apartment cappuccino filmed in in mexico nescafe spot tv

3

filmed in movie pittsburgh

2

filmed georgia in movie

3

filmed harry potter where

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Filmed

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Filmed

Derivations

Words ending with "filmed": microfilmed, refilmed, unfilmed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Filmed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "filmed" (pronounced fi"lmd)
3-l m doverwhelmed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Filmed

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Images: Digital Art
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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