FILMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filming mean? 

• FILMING (noun)
  The noun FILMING has 1 sense:

1. the act of making a film

  Familiarity information: FILMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making a film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cinematography; filming; motion-picture photography

Hypernyms ("filming" is a kind of...):

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filming"):

take (the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption)

animation (the making of animated cartoons)

Derivation:

film (make a film or photograph of something)

film (record in film)

 Context examples 

By filming a great tit having a terrible dining experience with conspicuous prey, then showing it on a television to other tits before tracking their meal selection, researchers found that birds acquired a better idea of which prey to avoid: those that stand out.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)