still

stills (plural)
stil (alternative)
stille (alternative)
styll (alternative)
stylle (alternative)

From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, silent, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.

(cinematography) A single frame from a film.


skein

skeins (plural)
skean (alternative obsolete)
skain (alternative obsolete)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-skein.wav

From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”). Compare Irish scáinne (“skein, clew”).

der

All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]

Three comedy shows from the U. S. are in the CTV lineup: CBSTV's Phil Silvers and Danny Thomas skeins and NBC-TV's "Harry's Girls."

1963, Radio Television Daily, volume 93, page 5:

(radio, television, dated) A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).


MOR

/ɛm əʊ ˈɑː(ɹ)/

But MOR as a programming powerhouse began to lose strength as the radio industry evolved during those decades.

2003, Christopher H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of Radio, page 1575:

At a hip grocery store, Maggie meets David (Kelvin Harrison Jr., from “Waves”), a handsome singer-songwriter with a rockin’ MOR vibe, and the two have a “High Fidelity” music-geek convo that dances on the edge of cringey-ness.

2020 May 25, Owen Gleiberman, “‘The High Note’: Film Review”, in Claudia Eller, editor, Variety, Los Angeles, Calif.: Variety Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-25:

middle of the road
middle of the road#English

(radio) Initialism of middle of the road.


gram

grams (plural)
gramme (alternative British)

(broadcasting, dated) A gramophone recording.


animé

From Japanese アニメ (“anime”), from アニメーション (“animēshon”), from English animation.


platform

en-verb

platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)

platforms (present singular third-person)
platforming (participle present)
platformed (participle past)
platformed (past)

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

der

But serious movies are not necessarily good movies. A studio that decides to platform a film had better be sure the film will get the necessary good reviews and audience approval. Otherwise, like United Artists' "A Small Circle of Friends," which was platformed around the same time as "The Elephant Man," the film will fail calamitously.

1981 September 2, Aljean Harmetz, “Comes Fall, a Chance for Serious Movies?”, in The New York Times, page C21:

Each of these films will be "platformed," the industry term to describe the strategy of opening a movie first in a limited number of theaters to give it an aura of exclusivity, then having its appeal build through word of mouth.

1993 November 25, Bernard Weinraub, “For Movie Industry, Thanksgiving Means A Box-Office Feast”, in The New York Times, page C11:

(film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.


faction

Near-synonym: fictionalization

Blind genius of faction / Obituary of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer [title]

1986 June 16, W. J. Weatherby, “Blind genius of faction”, in The Guardian:

Contemporary reviewers offered different labels in attempts to describe the genre of Schindler's List. Lorna Sage, D.J. Enright and Robert Taubman called it a ‘documentary novel’; Paul Bailey and Gay Firth ‘faction’; […]

2000, Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 93:

[Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.

2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:

(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.


leader

→ Catalan: líder

→ Czech: lídr

→ Galician: líder

→ Japanese: リーダー (rīdā)

→ Korean: 리더 (rideo)

→ Polish: lider

→ Portuguese: líder

→ Romanian: lider

→ Russian: ли́дер (líder)

→ Spanish: líder

→ Turkish: lider

→ Ukrainian: лі́дер (líder)

From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī (“leader”), equivalent to lead + -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

cog

If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.

2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:

Someone or something that leads or conducts.

(film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.

The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.

1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 15:


mask

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).

蒙版

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

(publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.


generation

en-noun

generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.

inh+

With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]

2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book:

Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.

2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology, page 131:

(television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.


季

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 禾 + 子.
Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007).


檔

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *taːŋ, *taːŋs): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 當 (OC *taːŋ, *taːŋs).

Han compound

八點檔／八点档


image

German: Image

Slovak: imidž

Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)

Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

(radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.


image

→ Franco-Provençal: émâge

→ Turkish: imaj

Inherited from Old French image, borrowed from Latin imaginem (“a copy, likeness, image”).


link

Azerbaijani: link

Belarusian: лінк (link)

Bulgarian: линк (link)

Catalan: link

Chinese:

Hong Kong Cantonese: link (ling1), 拎 (ling1)

Czech: link

Danish: link

Dutch: link

Estonian: link

Finnish: linkki

Georgian: ლინკი (linḳi)

German: link

Hebrew: לינק (línk)

Hindi: लिंक (liṅk)

Hungarian: link

Italian: link

Japanese: リンク (rinku)

Korean: 링크 (ringkeu)

Lower Sorbian: link

Macedonian: линк (link)

Persian: لینک (link)

Polish: link

Portuguese: link

Romanian: link

Serbo-Croatian: линк, link

Slovak: link

Spanish: link

Russian: линк (link)

Thai: ลิงก์ (líng)

Turkish: link

Ukrainian: лінк (link)

Yiddish: לינק (link)

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

tejlidhje

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.

2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 53:


生

From Old Japanese. Numerous derivatives already in use in the Heian period.

生演奏


squelch

en-verb

squelch (third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched)

squelches (present singular third-person)
squelching (participle present)
squelched (participle past)
squelched (past)

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash + quell + quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.

(transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.

sintonizar

radio technology: suppress hiss or static


squelch

en-noun

squelch (countable and uncountable, plural squelches)

(radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.


ABC

“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.

2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

American Broadcasting Company
w:American Broadcasting Company

(television) Initialism of American Broadcasting Company, an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943.

American Broadcasting Company

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
w:Australian Broadcasting Corporation

(radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Company
w:Australian Broadcasting Company

(historical, radio) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company

Australian Broadcasting Commission
w:Australian Broadcasting Commission

(historical, radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
w:Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

(radio, television) Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.


kick

kick (countable and uncountable, plural kicks)

→ German: Kick

→ Irish: cic

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

cog

(film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”).


ham

Uncertain, though it is generally agreed upon that it first appeared in print around the 1880s. At least four theories persist:
* It came naturally from the word amateur. Deemed likely by Hendrickson (1997), but then the question would be why it took so long to pop up. He rejects the folk etymology of Cockney slang hamateur because it originated in American English.
* From the play Hamlet, where the title character was often played poorly and/or in an exaggerated manner. Also deemed likely by Hendrickson, though he raises the issue that the term would have likely been around earlier if this were case.
* From the minstrel's practice of using ham fat to remove heavy black makeup used during performances.
* Shortened from hamfatter (“inferior actor”), said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man. William and Mary Morris (1988) argue that it's not known whether the song inspired the term or the term inspired the song, but that they believe the latter is the case.

Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, James Wood praised Mr. McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.”

2023 June 13, Dwight Garner, quoting James Wood, “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.


ham

en-verb

ham (third-person singular simple present hams, present participle hamming, simple past and past participle hammed)

hams (present singular third-person)
hamming (participle present)
hammed (participle past)
hammed (past)

Near-synonym: camp it up

(acting) To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.


ECG

character generator
character generator#English

(broadcasting) Initialism of electronic character generator.


star system

Chapters have examined the general structural trends that have defined particular phases in the organisation of the star system, looking at the conditions in which the system emerged, how the studios controlled the ownership of star images, and the power of the star in contemporary Hollywood.

2001, Paul McDonald, The Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 107:

(film) A method of creating, promoting and exploiting movie stars in cinema, emphasizing on their images rather than acting.


daily

dailies (plural)
dayly (alternative archaic obsolete)

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

(US, film, television) Raw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.


linear

From Latin līneāris, from līnea (“line”) + -āris (adjectival suffix), equivalent to line + -ar. Doublet of lineal.

linear amplifier
linear amplifier#English

(radio slang) Ellipsis of linear amplifier.


bicycle

bicycle (third-person singular simple present bicycles, present participle bicycling, simple past and past participle bicycled)

bicycles (present singular third-person)
bicycling (participle present)
bicycled (participle past)
bicycled (past)

Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-”) + cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.
(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.

“Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.

2002, Roger Phillips Smith, The Other Face of Public Television, page 56:

In turn, two-inch tapes of these could be “bicycled” from one place to another across the country, thereby altering and improving production economies.

2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 177:

(television, historical, transitive) To physically ship (a recorded programme) to another broadcasting entity.


CBC

In an email to CNN, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,’” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”

2021 February 19, Rob Kuznia, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, “How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate”, in CNN:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
w:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

(Canada, television, radio) Initialism of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company
w:Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company

(Japan, television, radio) Initialism of Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company.


UPN

United Paramount Network
w:United Paramount Network

(television, US) Initialism of United Paramount Network.


PPV

en-noun

PPV (countable and uncountable, plural PPVs)

(television) Initialism of pay-per-view.


MTV

Originally an initialism of Music Television, incorporating the earlier abbreviation TV for television.

I want my, I want my MTV / Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain't workin', that's the way you do it / Money for nothin', and chicks for free

1985, Sting, Mark Knopfler, “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits:

We won the race, got out of the place / Went back home, got a brand new face for the boys on MTV

1990, “Freedom! ’90”, in Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, performed by George Michael:

So the FCC won't let me be / Or let me be me, so let me see / They tried to shut me down on MTV

In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.

2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN:

(television) A television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.


HBO

/ˌeɪtʃ ˌbiː ˈoʊ/

Most Chinese users watch HBO through virtual private networks, or VPNs.

(television) Initialism of Home Box Office, a premium movie and entertainment channel.


flight

flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Proto-West Germanic *-þi
Proto-West Germanic *fluhti
Old English flyht
Middle English flight
English flight
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

etymon

After the first eight-week flight of advertising, the tracking research showed that consumers' predisposition to use Citi as a financial services provider jumped 50 percent.

2006, Pat Fallon, Fred Senn, Juicing the Orange, page 34:

(advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length.


PBS

NPR joined PBS in suggesting it will consider legal action against the administration.

2025 May 2, Brian Stelter, Clay Voytek, “President Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS”, in CNN:

(Canada, US, television) Initialism of Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Services
w:Public Broadcasting Services

(Malta, broadcasting) Initialism of Public Broadcasting Services.


NPR

First, I think that the NPR leadership made a mistake in appearing to fire Williams in a snit, rather than not renewing his contract, at the next opportunity, because of longstanding differences in journalistic values.

2010 October 25, James Fallows, “Why NPR Matters (Long)”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2025-06-10:

In Trump’s first term, his annual budget proposals zeroed out the funding for the corporation, but Congress always allocated the funds anyway — a reflection of the fact that national Republican opposition to NPR and PBS is countered by local support.

National Public Radio
w:National Public Radio

(US, radio) Initialism of National Public Radio.


SABC

South African Broadcasting Company
w:South African Broadcasting Company

(South Africa, broadcasting) Initialism of South African Broadcasting Company.


CC

en-noun

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

(television) Initialism of closed caption.


PC

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)


AI

Audio (US)

(television) Initialism of American Idol.


pot

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)

While the announcer is talking, the select switch on the mixing board for the microphone input is selected, and the microphone is “potted up.”

1999, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-engineers, page 23:

(slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.


PG

en-noun

PG (countable and uncountable, plural PGs)

I've had it. That's it George! For one year now, I've been providing X-rated entertainment and you reciprocate with PG! It's an iniquitous arrangement!

1979, Blake Edwards, 10, spoken by Neighbor:

(uncountable, film, British, US, Philippines) Initialism of parental guidance, a rating for a film that may be viewed by minors at their parents' discretion.


PG

Borrowed from English PG; the meaning being a phono-semantic matching of English parental guidance, coined by Movie and Television Review and Classification Board in 2012.

coinage

initialism of patnubay at gabay (“parental guidance (television and motion picture rating in the Philippines)”)


齣

齣 (canonical)
齣 (canonical)
koma (romanization)

Probably cognate with 小間, 細 (koma, “small; a small piece of something”).

(film, animation, manga) a frame of a comic or film

(film, theater) an act or scene of a play or movie


es

WX HR COLD ES RAINY


FX

(slang, video games, film, television) Alternative form of F/X (“special effects”).


lexicon

en-verb

lexicon (third-person singular simple present lexicons, present participle lexiconing, simple past and past participle lexiconed)

lexicons (present singular third-person)
lexiconing (participle present)
lexiconed (participle past)
lexiconed (past)

William Fulke
lexicon
lexicon (disambiguation)

Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.

der

λεξικὸν βιβλίον

Mrazek’s legislation would discourage time compression, a technique used to speed up a movie, and “lexiconing,” a process of altering the soundtrack to match the shorter, compressed version.

1991 July 26, Beth Hawkins, “A Call for Legal Action Against Film Alterations : Movies: Six prominent filmmakers join a N.Y. congressman in asking for warning labels if a film has been ‘colorized,’ ‘lexiconed’ or compressed.”, in Los Angeles Times:

(film) To shorten a soundtrack to fit a shortened version of a movie.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

(authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.


generic

generice (plural)
generic (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
genericul (accusative definite nominative singular)
generice (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
genericele (accusative definite nominative plural)
generic (indefinite singular)
genericului (definite singular)
generice (indefinite plural)
genericelor (definite plural)
genericule (singular vocative)
genericelor (plural vocative)


pilot

→ Dari: پیلوت (pilot)

→ Hindi: पायलट (pāylaṭ)

→ Japanese: パイロット (pairotto)

→ Korean: 파일럿 (pailleot)

→ Northern Kurdish: pîlot

From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).

I think her biggest deal was she starred in a pilot.[…]Well, the way they pick TV shows is they make one show. That show's called a pilot. Then they show that one show to the people who pick shows, and on the strength of that one show, they decide if they wanna make more shows.

1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):

(television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.


pilot

pilot (nominative singular)
piloty (nominative plural)
pilota (genitive singular)
pilotów (genitive plural)
pilotowi (dative singular)
pilotom (dative plural)
pilot (accusative singular)
piloty (accusative plural)
pilotem (instrumental singular)
pilotami (instrumental plural)
pilocie (locative singular)
pilotach (locative plural)
pilocie (singular vocative)
piloty (plural vocative)

(film, marketing) trailer (preview of a film)


television

en-noun

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

→ Japanese: テレビジョン (terebijon), → Japanese: テレビ (terebi)

→ Korean: 텔레비전 (tellebijeon)

→ Malay: televisyen

→ Maltese: televixin

desctree

→ Sanskrit: दूरदर्शन (dūradarśana) (semantic loan)
→ Thai: โทรทัศน์ (too-rá-tát)
→ Lao: ໂທລະທັດ (thō la that)
→ Khmer: ទូរទស្សន៍ (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)

→ Swahili: televisheni

→ Yoruba: tẹlifíṣọ̀n

/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

/ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/

From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.

It's a good thing that television doesn't transmit smell.

(uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.


POP

(television) Acronym of picture outside of picture.


wash

en-noun

wash (countable and uncountable, plural washes)

From Middle English wasshen, waschen, weschen, from Old English wascan, from Proto-West Germanic *waskan, from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, *watskaną (“to wash, get wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“wet; water”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian waaske (“to wash”), West Frisian waskje (“to wash”), Dutch wassen, wasschen (“to wash”), Low German waschen (“to wash”), German waschen (“to wash”), Danish vaske (“to wash”), Norwegian Bokmål vaske (“to wash”), Swedish vaska (“to wash”), Icelandic vaska (“to wash”).

der

(television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.


countdown

countdowns (plural)
count down (alternative)
count-down (alternative)

(radio, television) A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order and ending with the number one song.

lista

a radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week


side

en-noun

side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.

coinage

know which side one's bread is buttered on

laugh out of the other side of one's mouth

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

the grass is always greener on the other side of the road

Some directors use full scripts (book); others use “sides,” which consist of one or two words of the cue and the subsequent full speech of the individual actor.

2010, Viola Spolin, Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, page 12:

The short scenes in this book are particularly useful for audition workshops since audition sides are rarely longer than two pages.

(drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.


jib

Attested since the 1660s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortening of gibbet.

(metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.

кран

crane for mounting, moving a video camera


PLC

en-noun

PLC (countable and uncountable, plural PLCs)

(countable, broadcasting) Initialism of program-length commercial.


protagonist

Penguin Books
The Independent
The Sense of Style
protagonist

From Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs, “a chief actor”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, prot- (“first”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).

der

πρωταγωνιστής

surf

(authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.


protagonist

protagonist (indefinite nominative singular)
protagonists (genitive indefinite singular)
protagonisten (definite nominative singular)
protagonistens (definite genitive singular)
protagonister (indefinite nominative plural)
protagonisters (genitive indefinite plural)
protagonisterna (definite nominative plural)
protagonisternas (definite genitive plural)


apron

Internationalism, borrowed from English apron.

(drama) the portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre


rádió

rádiók (plural)
rádió (nominative singular)
rádiók (nominative plural)
rádiót (accusative singular)
rádiókat (accusative plural)
rádiónak (dative singular)
rádióknak (dative plural)
rádióval (instrumental singular)
rádiókkal (instrumental plural)
rádióért (causal-final singular)
rádiókért (causal-final plural)
rádióvá (singular translative)
rádiókká (plural translative)
rádióig (singular terminative)
rádiókig (plural terminative)
rádióként (essive-formal singular)
rádiókként (essive-formal plural)
rádióban (inessive singular)
rádiókban (inessive plural)
rádión (singular superessive)
rádiókon (plural superessive)
rádiónál (adessive singular)
rádióknál (adessive plural)
rádióba (illative singular)
rádiókba (illative plural)
rádióra (singular sublative)
rádiókra (plural sublative)
rádióhoz (allative singular)
rádiókhoz (allative plural)
rádióból (elative singular)
rádiókból (elative plural)
rádióról (delative singular)
rádiókról (delative plural)
rádiótól (ablative singular)
rádióktól (ablative plural)
rádióé (singular)
rádióké (plural)
rádióéi (singular)
rádiókéi (plural)
rádióm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
rádióim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
rádiód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
rádióid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
rádiója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
rádiói (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
rádiónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
rádióink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
rádiótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
rádióitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
rádiójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
rádióik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Nálunk minden szobában van egy rádió.

We have a radio in every room in our house.


operator

pl-noun

operator m pers (female equivalent operatorka)

operatorka (feminine)
operator (nominative singular)
operatorzy (nominative plural)
operatory (derogatory nominative plural)
operatora (genitive singular)
operatorów (genitive plural)
operatorowi (dative singular)
operatorom (dative plural)
operatora (accusative singular)
operatorów (accusative plural)
operatorem (instrumental singular)
operatorami (instrumental plural)
operatorze (locative singular)
operatorach (locative plural)
operatorze (singular vocative)
operatorzy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French opérateur, from Latin operātor.


share

Edizione da incorniciare. “Sanremo 2024” saluta il pubblico con ascolti record: la quinta serata è stata vista da ben 14.301.000 con il 74,1% di share.

2024 February 11, Giuseppe Candela, “Sanremo 2024, chiude con ascolti record: 74,1% di share, è la finale più vista dal 1995 con Pippo Baudo. Il picco con Fiorello e Roberto Bolle [Sanremo 2024, closes off with record viewership: 74.1% of the viewing audience, and the most viewed finale since 1995 with Pippo Baudo. The peak with Fiorello and Roberto Bolle]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano:

An edition that should be framed. "Sanremo 2024" greets the audience with record viewership: the fifth night was viewed by no less than 14,301,000 people with 74.1% of the viewing audience.

(television) percent of people watching a particular show out of the total viewing audience at a given time


share

Ambos muestran problemas de administración con fuerte inestabilidad y graves problemas económicos, con baja sintonía y credibilidad por ser canales del gobierno; en 1998 tuvo un share promedio de 3,3% (Television Latin America, 1999; Cfr. La Industria Audiovisual Iberoamericana, 1998).

2000, Valerio Fuenzalida, La televisión pública en América Latina: reforma o privatización:

En concreto, en la primera temporada (2001- 2002), la serie alcanza una media de 5,5 millones de espectadores y un share de 33,3%.

2003, Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, Querido maestro: dos en un sofá, volume 2:

De acuerdo a las estadísticas de la planta, el Miss Venezuela es el programa más visto de la televisión venezolana con un share de 75,9% […]

2005, Albor Rodríguez, Misses de Venezuela: reinas que cautivaron a un país:


nemo

In New York City alone, there are nearly three dozen of these "nemo" points from which speeches, music, and entertainment are broadcast regularly.

1929, Popular Science, volume 115, number 4, page 153:

All "nemo" broadcasting, except entirely musical, would be abandoned. Stations would not risk broadcasting anything arising outside the studio, as there would be no editorial or censorship power.

1935, Alison Reppy, Air Law Review, volume 6, page 86:

(broadcasting, dated) Acronym of not emanating from main office, i.e. broadcast from some remote location instead.


パン

(cinematography) a pan shot (a film shot where the camera is turned horizontally)


font

en-verb

font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)

fonts (present singular third-person)
fonting (participle present)
fonted (participle past)
fonted (past)

From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

der

When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

1981, William Safire, On language, page 78:

[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations, page 97:

(transitive, television, informal) To overlay (text) on the picture.


score

en-verb

score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)

scores (present singular third-person)
scoring (participle present)
scored (participle past)
scored (past)
score (infinitive)
score (first-person present singular)
scored (first-person past singular)
score (present second-person singular)
scorest (archaic present second-person singular)
scored (past second-person singular)
scoredst (archaic past second-person singular)
scores (present singular third-person)
scoreth (archaic present singular third-person)
scored (past singular third-person)
score (plural present)
scored (past plural)
score (present subjunctive)
scored (past subjunctive)
score (imperative present)
scoring (participle present)
scored (participle past)

→⇒ Irish: scóráil

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.

der

Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.

1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98:

Robertson scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.

2023 August 10, Adrian Horton, “Robbie Robertson, member of the Band, dies at age 80”, in The Guardian, UK:

(transitive, music, film) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

säveltää musiikki

to provide a film, etc. with a musical score


grain

en-noun

grain (countable and uncountable, plural grains)

From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.

𒊺

harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops

гран

unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight

(photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.

rakeisuus

visual texture in processed photographic film


turnaround

turnaround (countable and uncountable, plural turnarounds)

turnarounds (plural)
turn-around (alternative)
turn around (alternative)
turnround (alternative)

/ˈtɜːnəˌɹaʊnd/

/ˈtɜɹnəˌɹaʊnd/

(film) A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.

A new company […] has been set up to provide satellite turnaround and fiber connectivity facilities between Asia and Europe.

1999, Cyprus Embassy Newsletter, page 4:

(broadcasting) The relaying of a satellite signal.


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.

(theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.


arc

→ Irish: arc

→ Maltese: ark

→ Welsh: arc

Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.

der

For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.


TBC

(broadcasting) Initialism of timebase correction.


flag

en-noun

flag (countable and uncountable, plural flags)

From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.
Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagga (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.

2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:

(television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.


plan

→ Central Franconian: Plan

Hunsrik: Plaan

→ German: Plan

→ Norwegian Bokmål: plan

→ Luxembourgish: Plang

→ Ottoman Turkish: پلان
Turkish: plan

→ Persian: پلان (pelân)

→ Polish: plan
→ Kashubian: plan

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter, or from Latin planus. Doublet of plant or plain, depending on which etymology is right.


plan

plan (nominative singular)
plany (nominative plural)
planu (genitive singular)
planów (genitive plural)
planowi (dative singular)
planom (dative plural)
plan (accusative singular)
plany (accusative plural)
planem (instrumental singular)
planami (instrumental plural)
planie (locative singular)
planach (locative plural)
planie (singular vocative)
plany (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: plan

Borrowed from French plan. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from English plan and German Plan. First attested in the 19th century.

ref

Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “plan”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861

(film) shot (range of view of the camera, resulting from its distance from the object being filmed)

(film) location; set (place where a movie is filmed)


drama

drama (nominative singular)
dramy (nominative plural)
dramy (genitive singular)
dram (genitive plural)
dramie (dative singular)
dramom (dative plural)
dramę (accusative singular)
dramy (accusative plural)
dramą (instrumental singular)
dramami (instrumental plural)
dramie (locative singular)
dramach (locative plural)
dramo (singular vocative)
dramy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French drame, from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). First attested in 1728. Doublet of dramat.

Wiesław Morawski (13.06.2019) “DRAMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(drama) drama (composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue)


process

en-verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

processes (present singular third-person)
processing (participle present)
processed (participle past)
processed (past)

From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).

(transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.


double

double (third-person singular simple present doubles, present participle doubling, simple past and past participle doubled)

doubles (present singular third-person)
doubling (participle present)
doubled (participle past)
doubled (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.

(radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.


antagonist

[ɛə̯nˈtæɡənɪst]

From Latin antagonista, from Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνιστής (antagōnistḗs, “opponent”) (ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”)), from ἀνταγωνίζομαι (antagōnízomai, “to antagonize”).

der

ἀνταγωνιστής

So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being / I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme

2022, Will Wood (musician), “The Main Character”, in In case I make it,, performed by Will Wood:

(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.


antagonist

antagonist (indefinite nominative singular)
antagonists (genitive indefinite singular)
antagonisten (definite nominative singular)
antagonistens (definite genitive singular)
antagonister (indefinite nominative plural)
antagonisters (genitive indefinite plural)
antagonisterna (definite nominative plural)
antagonisternas (definite genitive plural)


magazine

→ Burmese: မဂ္ဂဇင်း (magga.jang:)

→ Cebuano: magasin

→ Dutch: magazine

→ French: magazine

→ Portuguese: magazine

→ Italian: magazine

→ Gujarati: મેગેઝિન (megejhin)

→ Hebrew: מגזין (magazin)

→ Japanese: マガジン (magajin)

desc

→ Kashubian: magazina (Canada, United States)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Spanish: magacín

→ Turkish: magazin

→ Malay: magazin

From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in the 1580s.

ref

Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “magazine (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

etydate

After several months' delay, The Emerald City, New York's hour-long gay television show, is on the air. In magazine format, the show offers interviews, gay news and commentary, visits to New York's entertainment spots and gay shows, and a bit of camping from George Sardi.

1977 April 16, “Emeralds for TV”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.

(broadcasting) A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.

Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

1983, Channels of Communications, volume 3, page 41:

The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]

1984, Telecommunications, volume 18, page 89:

(historical, television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.


raw

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.

der

(anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

生肉

anime fandom: a recording or rip that has not been fansubbed


evergreen

Another change in the news was emphasis on “evergreen” features involving attractive children or animals, parades or fireworks, as well as local developments.

2001, Christopher H Sterling, John M Kittross, Stay Tuned, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 654:

(broadcasting) Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.


ghost

en-verb

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

ghosts (present singular third-person)
ghosting (participle present)
ghosted (participle past)
ghosted (past)
ghoast (alternative obsolete)
gost (alternative obsolete)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-ghost.wav

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäist, Jeest, West Frisian geast, Dutch geest, German Low German Geest, Geist, German Geist, Swedish gast.
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

Here's how it went: Larry Parks as elderly Al Jolson was watching Larry Parks playing young Al Jolson in the first movie — in other words, Parks ghosting for Parks. At the same time, Jolson himself was ghosting the voices for both of them.

1955, Saturday Review (volume 38, part 2, page 27)

One of the few performers to triumph over ghosting was Ava Gardner in Freed's Show Boat (1951). Not only does she lip-synch with breathtaking accuracy, her performance gives the cotton-candy production its only underpinning of realism.

1999, The Golden Age of Musicals, page 50:

(film) To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.


special

From Middle English *special, especial, especiall, from Old French especial (whence also French spécial), from Latin speciālis (from speciēs). In this sense displaced native Old English synderlīċ. Doublet of especial.

Did you see the Christmas special?

(broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.

特輯 /特辑

(TV, radio) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series


method

en-noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).

mètode

(programming) subroutine or function in object-oriented languages

my very easy method just speeds up naming planets

In this case, the application of the famous method was a little shaky. To be fair, the director was dealing with a pretty stroppy cast.

1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:

(acting, often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed.


ellipsis

ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.

der

It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses" by filmmakers.

(film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.


focus

en-noun

focus (countable and uncountable, plural foci or focuses or focusses)

foci (plural)
focuses (plural)
focusses (plural)

Borrowed from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”); see there for more. Doublet of fuel.
Kepler introduced the term into mathematics and the sciences in describing elliptical orbits of planets (quote from Nicholas Mee) :
"One of the interesting properties of an ellipse is that if there were a light bulb at one focus, then all the light that it emits would reflect off the ellipse and converge at the other focus. This is why Kepler originally used the name focus for these points."

bor+

Unfortunately, the license plate is out of focus in this image.

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

(uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

fokus

During this scene, the boy’s face shifts subtly from soft focus into sharp focus.

(uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.


series

en-noun

series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)

series (plural)
serieses (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: シリーズ (shirīzu)

→ Korean: 시리즈 (sirijeu)

→ Burmese: စီးရီး (ci:ri:)

Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

مُتَسَلْسِلَة

in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence

“Friends” was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

(broadcasting) A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.

टी वी शृंखला

ṭī vī śŕṅkhlā

I enjoyed the third series of “Friends”.

(broadcasting, chiefly UK) Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).


synopsis

From Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view.

(authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.


trailer

trailêr (canonical)
trailer-trailer (plural)
tréler (alternative)

From Dutch trailer, from English trailer.

(film) trailer, a preview of a film, video game or TV show


trailer

trailer (nominative singular)
trailery (nominative plural)
trailera (genitive singular)
trailerów (genitive plural)
trailerowi (dative singular)
trailerom (dative plural)
trailer (accusative singular)
trailery (accusative plural)
trailerem (instrumental singular)
trailerami (instrumental plural)
trailerze (locative singular)
trailerach (locative plural)
trailerze (singular vocative)
trailery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English trailer.

ubor

(film, marketing) trailer (preview of a film)


trailer

trailers (plural)
trêiler (alternative rare)

(film, television) trailer (short preview of a film)


dress

en-verb

dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past dressed, past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest)

dresses (present singular third-person)
dressing (participle present)
dressed (past)
dressed (participle past)
drest (obsolete participle past)
dress (infinitive)
dress (first-person present singular)
dressed (first-person past singular)
dress (present second-person singular)
dressed (past second-person singular)
dresses (present singular third-person)
dressed (past singular third-person)
dress (plural present)
dressed (past plural)
dress (present subjunctive)
dressed (past subjunctive)
dress (imperative present)
dressing (participle present)
dressed (participle past)
drest (participle past)

→ Sranan Tongo: dresi

PIE word
 *dwís
The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *directiare (“to guide, direct”). Doublet of direct.
The noun is derived from the verb.

aantrek

to put clothes on (oneself or someone, etc.) — see also clothe

self aantrek

to put on clothes — see also get dressed

koristaa

to adorn or ornament (something) — see also adorn, ornament

siistiä

to fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose — see also get ready

whakahuene

referring to preparing rough sawn timber

To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.

Mallory, all night long, single-handedly painted and dressed the set so that at eight o'clock Sunday morning when we arrived to make breakfast in the kitchen, there she was sound asleep on the davenport in the set, every prop in place.

2012, Marvin Silbersher, chapter 22, in A Fistful of Stars, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 106:

To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.

lavastaa

to prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.


dress

en-noun

dress (countable and uncountable, plural dresses)

→ Japanese: ドレス (doresu)

→ Korean: 드레스 (deureseu)

→ Norwegian: dress

→ Pennsylvania German: Dress

→ Scottish Gaelic: dreasa

(film, television, theater) Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.


kleur

af-verb

kleur (present kleur, present participle kleurende, past participle gekleur)

kleur (present)
kleurende (participle present)
gekleur (participle past)

(photography, cinematography) to colorize, to colourise


practical

en-adj

practical (comparative more practical, superlative most practical)

more practical (comparative)
most practical (superlative)

theoretical

antonym(s) of “based on practice or action”

impractical

antonym(s) of “likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation”

From Middle English practical, practicale, praktycall, from Medieval Latin practicālis.

Practical lighting can help sell the illusion that the film is a real situation.

(film) Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.


practical

A naturalistic set is normally dressed with all the furnishings and props to be found in a real room. This includes electric light fittings which, when they actually light, are known as practicals.

2001, Francis Reid, The Stage Lighting Handbook, page 124:

(film) A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.


moment

momencik (diminutive)
moment (nominative singular)
momenty (nominative plural)
momentu (genitive singular)
momentów (genitive plural)
momentowi (dative singular)
momentom (dative plural)
moment (accusative singular)
momenty (accusative plural)
momentem (instrumental singular)
momentami (instrumental plural)
momencie (locative singular)
momentach (locative plural)
momencie (singular vocative)
momenty (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum. First attested in 1592.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “moment”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(film, humorous, television) sex scene (segment in a movie in which characters have sex)


passer

passer (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
passant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
passé (participle past)
passe (first-person indicative present singular)
passes (indicative present second-person singular)
passe (indicative present singular third-person)
passons (first-person indicative plural present)
passez (indicative plural present second-person)
passent (indicative plural present third-person)
passais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
passais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
passait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
passions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
passiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
passaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
passai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
passas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
passa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
passâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
passâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
passèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
passerai (first-person future indicative singular)
passeras (future indicative second-person singular)
passera (future indicative singular third-person)
passerons (first-person future indicative plural)
passerez (future indicative plural second-person)
passeront (future indicative plural third-person)
passerais (conditional first-person singular)
passerais (conditional second-person singular)
passerait (conditional singular third-person)
passerions (conditional first-person plural)
passeriez (conditional plural second-person)
passeraient (conditional plural third-person)
present indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
imperfect indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
past historic of avoir (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of avoir (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
passe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
passes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
passe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
passions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
passiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
passent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
passasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
passasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
passât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
passassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
passassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
passassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
present subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
imperfect subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
passe (imperative second-person singular)
passons (first-person imperative plural)
passez (imperative plural second-person)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
simple imperative of avoir (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
être + past participle (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)

→ Alemannic German: passiere

→ German: passieren

desc

Romanian: → pasa, → trece (semantic loan)

Inherited from Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).


traveller

travellers (plural)
traveler (alternative US)

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]

1977, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews, volumes 38-39, page 134:

(television, theater) A rail or track for a sliding curtain.


cart

(radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.


opposite

From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Compare oppose.

(television) On another channel at the same time.


opposite

The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.


copy

en-verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

copies (present singular third-person)
copying (participle present)
copied (participle past)
copied (past)
coppy (alternative)
coppie (alternative)
copie (alternative)

Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
From Middle English copien, from Old French copier and Medieval Latin cōpiō.

etymon

Do you copy?

(radio) To receive a transmission successfully.


reveal

From Middle English revēlen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”), from vēlum (“a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning, sail”) (whence also English veil, English unveil, English voile, Russian вуаль (vualʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ, “to veil”) (compare typologically)).
Also compare typologically English uncloak, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije), срыва́ть покро́вы (sryvátʹ pokróvy) (покро́в (pokróv, “cover, covering”)).

cog

завуали́ровать

m+

разобла́чать

The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.

A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal. A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed.

2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, →ISBN:

Once you find out what’s going on—the girl is a “hungry,” this film’s term for zombies—it’s still interesting enough, if not quite as powerful. That’s basically what you’re in for with this British postapocalyptic survival horror tale, which starts off strong but dilutes its impact with every consecutive reveal.

2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:

Even Westworld—based on a science-fiction novel where robots run amok—ended its second season with the ultimate reveal: human beings are simpler and more predictable than the artificial intelligences we create.

2019, Douglas Rushkoff, “Survival of the Richest”, in Extinction Rebellion, editor, This Is Not A Drill, London: Penguin, →ISBN:

(cinematography, narratology, comedy, usually informal) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story.


gig

en-verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

gigs (present singular third-person)
gigging (participle present)
gigged (participle past)
gigged (past)

The etymology of the noun is unknown, but compare Old French gigue (“a fiddle”). The verb is derived from the noun.

The Rolling Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time.

(film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

keikkailla

to engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

მუსიკალურ წარმოდგენაში მონაწილეობა


toss

From Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”).
The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English.

cog

The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington.

2003, Dennis Hart, Monitor (Take 2) (page 87)

(broadcasting) A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.


frost

en-noun

frost (countable and uncountable, plural frosts)

frosts (plural)
froste (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with West Frisian froast (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Swedish frost (“frost”), Norwegian frost (“frost”), Icelandic frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

cog

Frosts and diffusion are flame retardant and produce similar results except that some of the frosts are very subtle in their effects. For example: Hamburg Frost will soften the beam edge with little additional spread of the beam.

2013, Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television, pages 9–26:


telescope

From tele- + -scope.
From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I look at”).
Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.

der

In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

1963, Television Engineering: Report, page 245:

(television) A retractable tubular support for lights.


acting

en-noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.


out

outs (plural)
oute (alternative obsolete)

→ Greek: άουτ (áout)

→ Japanese: アウト (auto)

→ Korean: 아웃 (aut)

→ Spanish: out

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).
Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).

inh

It's an interesting film. I've always felt that he made it out of our outs [outtakes]: which was like he was trying to prove something.

2015, Keith Beattie, Trent Griffiths, D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews:


spot

(cinematography, theater) spotlight, spot

(television) spot; a brief segment on television


spot

spot (nominative singular)
spoty (nominative plural)
spotu (genitive singular)
spotów (genitive plural)
spotowi (dative singular)
spotom (dative plural)
spot (accusative singular)
spoty (accusative plural)
spotem (instrumental singular)
spotami (instrumental plural)
spocie (locative singular)
spotach (locative plural)
spocie (singular vocative)
spoty (plural vocative)

(radio) spot (short, usually 30-second, piece of advertising material that is aired either in between or during broadcasts)

(television) spot (short commercial shown in between or during TV broadcasts)


spot

sk-noun

spot m inan (relational adjective spotový)

spotový (adjective relational)
singular
plural
nominative
spot
spoty
genitive
spotu
spotov
dative
spotom
accusative
locative
spote
spotoch
instrumental
spotmi

sk:Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny

Borrowed from English spot. First attested in the 20th century.

(radio) spot (short, piece of advertising material that is aired either in between or during broadcasts)


agent

pl-noun

agent m pers (female equivalent agentka, diminutive agencik or agenciak)

agentka (feminine)
agencik (diminutive)
agenciak (diminutive)
agent (nominative singular)
agenci (nominative plural)
agenty (derogatory nominative plural)
agenta (genitive singular)
agentów (genitive plural)
agentowi (dative singular)
agentom (dative plural)
agenta (accusative singular)
agentów (accusative plural)
agentem (instrumental singular)
agentami (instrumental plural)
agencie (locative singular)
agentach (locative plural)
agencie (singular vocative)
agenci (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Agent, from French agent, from Middle French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens. First attested in 1609.

agent literacki

(acting, literature) impresario, literary agent


wallpaper

en-noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)

Scripts that include brief reference to a picture turn stock footage from 'wallpaper' to illustration.

1983, Av Westin, Newswatch: How TV Decides the News, page 88:

News bulletins on television may need general rather than specific footage. This is known as wallpaper — moving pictures over which the news item is read.

2002, Kathy Chater, Research for Media Production, page 75:

(television, slang) Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report.


cinta

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

cinta de seguridad

security tape, surveillance tape, security footage

Así fue, por ejemplo, en El nacimiento de una nación (1915) de Griffith, la película fundacional del séptimo arte. Sería impensable hablar de las innovaciones de esa cinta, de su osadía visual, y no nombrar la influencia decisiva que tuvo en los linchamientos del Ku Klux Klan.

2020 June 14, Elvira Lindo, “¡Señorita Escarlata, señorita Escarlata!”, in El País:

cinta cinematográfica
cinta cinematográfica#Spanish

(film) ellipsis of cinta cinematográfica; film


saada

saan (first-person indicative present singular)
en saa (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen saanut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole saanut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
saat (indicative present second-person singular)
et saa (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet saanut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole saanut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
saa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei saa (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on saanut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole saanut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
saamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme saa (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme saaneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole saaneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
saatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette saa (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette saaneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole saaneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
saavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät saa (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat saaneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole saaneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
saadaan (indicative passive present)
ei saada (indicative negative passive present)
on saatu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole saatu (indicative negative passive perfect)
sain (first-person indicative past singular)
en saanut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin saanut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut saanut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
sait (indicative past second-person singular)
et saanut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit saanut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut saanut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
sai (indicative past singular third-person)
ei saanut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli saanut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut saanut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
saimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme saaneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme saaneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet saaneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
saitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette saaneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte saaneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet saaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
saivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät saaneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat saaneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet saaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
saatiin (indicative passive past)
ei saatu (indicative negative passive past)
oli saatu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut saatu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
saisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en saisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin saanut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi saanut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
saisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et saisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit saanut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi saanut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
saisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei saisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi saanut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi saanut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
saisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme saisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme saaneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi saaneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
saisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette saisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte saaneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi saaneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
saisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät saisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat saaneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi saaneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
saataisiin (conditional passive present)
ei saataisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi saatu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi saatu (conditional negative passive perfect)
saa (imperative present second-person singular)
älä saa (imperative negative present second-person singular)
saakoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön saako (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon saanut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko saanut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
saakaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme saako (first-person imperative negative plural present)
saakaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää saako (imperative negative plural present second-person)
saakoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt saako (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot saaneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko saaneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
saatakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön saatako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon saatu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko saatu (imperative negative passive perfect)
saanen (first-person potential present singular)
en saane (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen saanut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene saanut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
saanet (potential present second-person singular)
et saane (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet saanut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene saanut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
saanee (potential present singular third-person)
ei saane (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee saanut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene saanut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
saanemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme saane (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme saaneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene saaneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
saanette (plural potential present second-person)
ette saane (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette saaneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene saaneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
saanevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät saane (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät saaneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene saaneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
saataneen (passive potential present)
ei saatane (negative passive potential present)
lienee saatu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene saatu (negative passive perfect potential)
saada (infinitive infinitive-i)
saava (active participle present)
saatava (participle passive present)
saadakseni (first-person possessive singular)
saadaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
saadaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
saadaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
saadakseen (possessive third-person)
saadaksensa (possessive third-person)
saanut (infinitive-i-long past)
saatu (infinitive-i-long past)
saadessa (inessive second-person)
saataessa (inessive second-person)
saama (agent)
saadessani (first-person possessive singular)
saadessamme (first-person plural possessive)
saadessasi (possessive second-person singular)
saadessanne (plural possessive second-person)
saadessaan (possessive third-person)
saadessansa (possessive third-person)
saamaton (inessive negative second-person)
saaden (instructive second-person)
saamassa (inessive third-person)
saamasta (elative third-person)
saamaan (illative third-person)
saamalla (adessive third-person)
saamatta (abessive third-person)
saaman (instructive third-person)
saataman (instructive third-person)
saaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
saamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
saamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
saamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
saamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
saamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
saamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈs̠ɑ̝ːdɑ̝(ʔ)]

From Proto-Finnic *saadak, from Proto-Uralic *saxe-. Compare Erzya саемс (sajems, “to get, to take”), самс (sams, “to arrive”).

Sain.

(transitive, radio) to copy (receive a transmission successfully)


drop

en-verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

drops (present singular third-person)
dropping (participle present)
dropped (participle past)
dropped (past)
dropt (archaic participle past)
dropt (archaic past)

From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English dropian, droppian (“to drop”), from dropa (“a drop”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).

спадам

to decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.

laskea

to move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards — see also lower

laskea

to lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume

The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.

(intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.

ilmestyä

of a programme, software, music, etc.: to enter public distribution

They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.

That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].

(transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.

julkaista

to release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public


NTSC

w:National Television Standards Committee

(television) Initialism of National Television Standards Committee, federal governmental committee of the US government.


NTSC

(television) Initialism of National Television Standards Committee, a North American TV standard for analog television.


NTSC

(television, slang, humorous) Initialism of never twice the same color, a variant of North American TV standard for analog television, drawing attention to the standard’s shortcomings.


PAL

en-noun

PAL (countable and uncountable, plural PALs)

(television, uncountable) Acronym of phase alternating/alternation/alternated line (TV standard).


AFC

(radio) Automatic Frequency Control (radio & TV technics)


AGC

automatic gain control
w:automatic gain control

(radio technics) Initialism of automatic gain control.


serial

az-noun

serial (definite accusative serialı, plural seriallar)

serialı (accusative definite)
seriallar (plural)
serial (nominative singular)
seriallar (nominative plural)
serialı (accusative definite singular)
serialları (accusative definite plural)
seriala (dative singular)
seriallara (dative plural)
serialda (locative singular)
seriallarda (locative plural)
serialdan (ablative singular)
seriallardan (ablative plural)
serialın (definite genitive singular)
serialların (definite genitive plural)
serialım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
seriallarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
serialın (nominative possessive second-person singular)
serialların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
serialı (nominative possessive singular third-person)
serialları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
serialımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
seriallarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
serialınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
seriallarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
serialı (nominative plural possessive third-person)
serialları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
serialımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
seriallarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
serialını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
seriallarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
serialını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
seriallarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
serialımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
seriallarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
serialınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
seriallarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
serialını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
seriallarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
serialıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
seriallarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
serialına (dative possessive second-person singular)
seriallarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
serialına (dative possessive singular third-person)
seriallarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
serialımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
seriallarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
serialınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
seriallarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
serialına (dative plural possessive third-person)
seriallarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
serialımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
seriallarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
serialında (locative possessive second-person singular)
seriallarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
serialında (locative possessive singular third-person)
seriallarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
serialımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
seriallarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
serialınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
seriallarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
serialında (locative plural possessive third-person)
seriallarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
serialımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
seriallarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
serialından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
seriallarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
serialından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
seriallarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
serialımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
seriallarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
serialınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
seriallarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
serialından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
seriallarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
serialımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
seriallarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
serialının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
seriallarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
serialının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
seriallarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
serialımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
seriallarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
serialınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
seriallarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
serialının (genitive plural possessive third-person)
seriallarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)

From Russian сериа́л (seriál), from English serial.

türk serialları

Azərbaycanlılar türk seriallarına baxmağı çox sevirlər.

Azerbaijanis love watching Turkish TV-series.


serial

serial (nominative singular)
seriale (nominative plural)
serialu (genitive singular)
seriali (genitive plural)
serialowi (dative singular)
serialom (dative plural)
serial (accusative singular)
seriale (accusative plural)
serialem (instrumental singular)
serialami (instrumental plural)
serialu (locative singular)
serialach (locative plural)
serialu (singular vocative)
seriale (plural vocative)

(television) series (television program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals)


redhead

Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63:

(film, television, theater) A kind of 800-watt lamp.


single

→ Dutch: single

→ Finnish: sinkku

→ German: Single

→ Indonesian: singel

→ Japanese: シングル (shinguru)

→ Korean: 싱글 (singgeul)

→ Polish: singiel

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.

But if the same scene is shot in singles (or “over-the-shoulder” shots where one of the actors is only a lumpy shoulder in the foreground), the editor and the director can almost redirect the scene on film.

1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work, page 94:


tema

temas (plural)
thema (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma). Doublet of teima.

(film, television) theme (melody that identifies a film or programme)


theme

-iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

der

(film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.


first-person

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-first-person.wav

(film, television, video games) Visual presentation through the protagonist or principal character's own eyes.


package

en-noun

package (countable and uncountable, plural packages)

Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.

Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.

2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245:

(television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).


distant

en-adj

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

more distant (comparative)
most distant (superlative)
distaunt (alternative obsolete)
dystant (alternative obsolete)
dystaunt (alternative obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]

1973, Cable Television, Rand Corporation:

Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.

1983, Gary L. Christensen, Cable Television in a New Era, page 128:

(television, not comparable) Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).


loma

loma (nominative singular)
lomas (nominative plural)
lomas (genitive singular)
lomu (genitive plural)
lomai (dative singular)
lomām (dative plural)
lomu (accusative singular)
lomas (accusative plural)
lomu (instrumental singular)
lomām (instrumental plural)
lomā (locative singular)
lomās (locative plural)
loma (singular vocative)
lomas (plural vocative)

spēlēt lomu

lomas teksts

mācīties lomu no galvas

tēlot galveno lomu

loma bez vārdiem

sadalīt lomas

(theater, cinematography) role, part, character