Meaning

3 senses

  1. (ambitransitive)To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

    A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

    I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.

    filmen, drehen

    снима́тьsnimátʹ, снятьsnjatʹ

    record in film

  2. (ambitransitive)To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

  3. (transitive)To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Examples

1592 sentences

  1. I found this film very interesting.

    Цей фільм мені здався дуже цікавим.

    ruЭтот фильм показался мне очень интересным.

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  2. There's no film in this camera.

    У цій камері немає плівки.

    ruВ этом фотоаппарате нет плёнки.

    deIn dieser Kamera ist kein Film.

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  3. This camera isn't loaded with film.

    У цьому фотоапараті немає плівки.

    deDiese Kamera enthält keinen Film.

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  4. I'm going to see a horror film.

    Я збираюся подивитися фільм жахів.

    ruЯ собираюсь посмотреть фильм ужасов.

    deIch habe vor, mir einen Horrorfilm anzuschauen.

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  5. There isn't any film in this camera.

    У цьому фотоапараті немає плівки.

    ruВ этом фотоаппарате нет никакой плёнки.

    deIn dieser Kamera ist kein Film.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to record a motion picture:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to record a motion picture:

Origin

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”)

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

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Forms

films, filming, filmed, filmed
Base formfilm · to film
3rd person singularfilms
Present participlefilming
Past simplefilmed
Past participlefilmed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfilm
he, she, itfilms

Past simpleLesson

all personsfilmed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave filmed
he, she, ithas filmed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill film

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make a film or photograph of something:shoottake

Word family

5 related words
Relatedfilming
Derivedfilmablemisfilmnonfilmingrefilm

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
filletfillingB1fillyfilmmakerfilterB1filth
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