televisio

televisio (nominative singular)
televisiot (nominative plural)
televisio (accusative nominative singular)
televisiot (accusative nominative plural)
television (accusative genitive singular)
televisiot (accusative genitive plural)
television (genitive singular)
televisioiden (genitive plural)
televisioitten (genitive plural)
televisiota (partitive singular)
televisioita (partitive plural)
televisiossa (inessive singular)
televisioissa (inessive plural)
televisiosta (elative singular)
televisioista (elative plural)
televisioon (illative singular)
televisioihin (illative plural)
televisiolla (adessive singular)
televisioilla (adessive plural)
televisiolta (ablative singular)
televisioilta (ablative plural)
televisiolle (allative singular)
televisioille (allative plural)
televisiona (essive singular)
televisioina (essive plural)
televisioksi (singular translative)
televisioiksi (plural translative)
televisiotta (abessive singular)
televisioitta (abessive plural)
televisioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
televisioni (nominative singular)
televisioni (nominative plural)
televisioni (accusative nominative singular)
televisioni (accusative nominative plural)
televisioni (accusative genitive singular)
televisioni (accusative genitive plural)
televisioni (genitive singular)
televisioideni (genitive plural)
televisioitteni (genitive plural)
televisiotani (partitive singular)
televisioitani (partitive plural)
televisiossani (inessive singular)
televisioissani (inessive plural)
televisiostani (elative singular)
televisioistani (elative plural)
televisiooni (illative singular)
televisioihini (illative plural)
televisiollani (adessive singular)
televisioillani (adessive plural)
televisioltani (ablative singular)
televisioiltani (ablative plural)
televisiolleni (allative singular)
televisioilleni (allative plural)
televisionani (essive singular)
televisioinani (essive plural)
televisiokseni (singular translative)
televisioikseni (plural translative)
televisiottani (abessive singular)
televisioittani (abessive plural)
televisioineni (comitative plural)
televisiosi (nominative singular)
televisiosi (nominative plural)
televisiosi (accusative nominative singular)
televisiosi (accusative nominative plural)
televisiosi (accusative genitive singular)
televisiosi (accusative genitive plural)
televisiosi (genitive singular)
televisioidesi (genitive plural)
televisioittesi (genitive plural)
televisiotasi (partitive singular)
televisioitasi (partitive plural)
televisiossasi (inessive singular)
televisioissasi (inessive plural)
televisiostasi (elative singular)
televisioistasi (elative plural)
televisioosi (illative singular)
televisioihisi (illative plural)
televisiollasi (adessive singular)
televisioillasi (adessive plural)
televisioltasi (ablative singular)
televisioiltasi (ablative plural)
televisiollesi (allative singular)
televisioillesi (allative plural)
televisionasi (essive singular)
televisioinasi (essive plural)
televisioksesi (singular translative)
televisioiksesi (plural translative)
televisiottasi (abessive singular)
televisioittasi (abessive plural)
televisioinesi (comitative plural)
televisiomme (nominative singular)
televisiomme (nominative plural)
televisiomme (accusative nominative singular)
televisiomme (accusative nominative plural)
televisiomme (accusative genitive singular)
televisiomme (accusative genitive plural)
televisiomme (genitive singular)
televisioidemme (genitive plural)
televisioittemme (genitive plural)
televisiotamme (partitive singular)
televisioitamme (partitive plural)
televisiossamme (inessive singular)
televisioissamme (inessive plural)
televisiostamme (elative singular)
televisioistamme (elative plural)
televisioomme (illative singular)
televisioihimme (illative plural)
televisiollamme (adessive singular)
televisioillamme (adessive plural)
televisioltamme (ablative singular)
televisioiltamme (ablative plural)
televisiollemme (allative singular)
televisioillemme (allative plural)
televisionamme (essive singular)
televisioinamme (essive plural)
televisioksemme (singular translative)
televisioiksemme (plural translative)
televisiottamme (abessive singular)
televisioittamme (abessive plural)
televisioinemme (comitative plural)
televisionne (nominative singular)
televisionne (nominative plural)
televisionne (accusative nominative singular)
televisionne (accusative nominative plural)
televisionne (accusative genitive singular)
televisionne (accusative genitive plural)
televisionne (genitive singular)
televisioidenne (genitive plural)
televisioittenne (genitive plural)
televisiotanne (partitive singular)
televisioitanne (partitive plural)
televisiossanne (inessive singular)
televisioissanne (inessive plural)
televisiostanne (elative singular)
televisioistanne (elative plural)
televisioonne (illative singular)
televisioihinne (illative plural)
televisiollanne (adessive singular)
televisioillanne (adessive plural)
televisioltanne (ablative singular)
televisioiltanne (ablative plural)
televisiollenne (allative singular)
televisioillenne (allative plural)
televisionanne (essive singular)
televisioinanne (essive plural)
televisioksenne (singular translative)
televisioiksenne (plural translative)
televisiottanne (abessive singular)
televisioittanne (abessive plural)
televisioinenne (comitative plural)
televisionsa (nominative singular)
televisionsa (nominative plural)
televisionsa (accusative nominative singular)
televisionsa (accusative nominative plural)
televisionsa (accusative genitive singular)
televisionsa (accusative genitive plural)
televisionsa (genitive singular)
televisioidensa (genitive plural)
televisioittensa (genitive plural)
televisiotaan (partitive singular)
televisiotansa (partitive singular)
televisioitaan (partitive plural)
televisioitansa (partitive plural)
televisiossaan (inessive singular)
televisiossansa (inessive singular)
televisioissaan (inessive plural)
televisioissansa (inessive plural)
televisiostaan (elative singular)
televisiostansa (elative singular)
televisioistaan (elative plural)
televisioistansa (elative plural)
televisioonsa (illative singular)
televisioihinsa (illative plural)
televisiollaan (adessive singular)
televisiollansa (adessive singular)
televisioillaan (adessive plural)
televisioillansa (adessive plural)
televisioltaan (ablative singular)
televisioltansa (ablative singular)
televisioiltaan (ablative plural)
televisioiltansa (ablative plural)
televisiolleen (allative singular)
televisiollensa (allative singular)
televisioilleen (allative plural)
televisioillensa (allative plural)
televisionaan (essive singular)
televisionansa (essive singular)
televisioinaan (essive plural)
televisioinansa (essive plural)
televisiokseen (singular translative)
televisioksensa (singular translative)
televisioikseen (plural translative)
televisioiksensa (plural translative)
televisiottaan (abessive singular)
televisiottansa (abessive singular)
televisioittaan (abessive plural)
televisioittansa (abessive plural)
televisioineen (comitative plural)
televisioinensa (comitative plural)

tele- + visio; adapted form of French télévision.


feuilleton

→ English: feuilleton

→ German: Feuilleton

→ Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone

→ Swedish: följetong

→ Danish: føljeton


mush

en-noun

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”).
Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).

der

(radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.


CV

en-noun

CV (countable and uncountable, plural CVs)

CVs (plural)
C.V. (alternative)
C. V. (alternative)

Abbreviation
* (anime, Japanimation): From Japanese CV (CV), from English character+voice
* (aircraft carrier): Initialism of cruiser (“croiseur”) + French voler (“to fly”).

initialism

(anime) character's voice (“voice actor”)


post

we'll fix it in post

Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:


rushes

(cinematography) Unedited footage; film material as recorded to tape etc.


screen

en-verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

screens (present singular third-person)
screening (participle present)
screened (participle past)
screened (past)
skreen (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

der

The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

(film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).

上映

film, television: to present publicly (on the screen)


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.


western

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Morphologically west + -ern.

(film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.


western

From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.


strip

en-noun

strip (countable and uncountable, plural strips)

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en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.

(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.


strip

en-verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

strips (present singular third-person)
stripping (participle present)
stripped (participle past)
stripped (past)

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

cog

(television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.


cutter

→ Catalan: cúter

→ Korean: 커터 (keoteo)

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

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 flag or similar instrument for blocking light.


airspace

en-noun

airspace (countable and uncountable, plural airspaces)

airspaces (plural)
air space (alternative)

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

The legalisation of free radios caused a bitter fight for airspace.

(broadcasting) Space (i.e. a few neighboring frequencies) available for broadcasting within a particular frequency band.


dresser

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

(theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

der

(television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.


crawl

→ Portuguese: crol, crawl

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also Saterland Frisian krauelje (“to crawl, scuttle”), West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

(television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.


cyberpunk

cyberpunk (nominative singular)
cyberpunku (genitive singular)
cyberpunkowi (dative singular)
cyberpunk (accusative singular)
cyberpunkiem (instrumental singular)
cyberpunku (locative singular)
cyberpunku (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English cyberpunk.

ubor

(film, science fiction) cyberpunk (sci-fi subgenre)


cyberpunk

cyberpunk (nominative singular)
cyberpunki (nominative plural)
cyberpunka (genitive singular)
cyberpunków (genitive plural)
cyberpunkowi (dative singular)
cyberpunkom (dative plural)
cyberpunka (accusative singular)
cyberpunków (accusative plural)
cyberpunkiem (instrumental singular)
cyberpunkami (instrumental plural)
cyberpunku (locative singular)
cyberpunkach (locative plural)
cyberpunku (singular vocative)
cyberpunki (plural vocative)

(film, science fiction) cyberpunk (cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life)


quadro

From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.

(electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline

(television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)


outline

(film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.

juoni

(film industry) a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay


cutting

en-noun

cutting (countable and uncountable, plural cuttings)

(uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.


ethos

la-noun

ēthos n (genitive ētheos); irregular, third declension

ēthos (canonical neuter)
ētheos (genitive)
ēthos (nominative singular)
ēthea (nominative plural)
ēthē (nominative plural)
ētheos (genitive singular)
ēthesi (dative plural)
ēthesin (dative plural)
ēthos (accusative singular)
ēthea (accusative plural)
ēthē (accusative plural)
ēthesi (ablative plural)
ēthesin (ablative plural)
ēthos (singular vocative)
ēthea (plural vocative)
ēthē (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos).

Is omnium prīmus animum pīnxit et sēnsūs hominis expressit, quae vocant Graecī ēthē, item perturbātiōnēs, dūrior paulō in colōribus.

77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35.98

He [viz. Aristides of Thebes] was the first of all painters who depicted the mind and expressed the feelings of a human being, what the Greeks term ethe, and also the emotions; he was a little too hard in his colours.


catharsis

en-noun

catharsis (countable and uncountable, plural catharses)

/kəˈθɑɹˌsɪs/

From Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis, “cleansing, purging”), from καθαίρω (kathaírō, “I cleanse”). Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.

uder

True, as the show has entered its later years, there have been more inspired moments of catharsis, but fewer unpredictable arcs and story beats, as a narrative nearing its conclusion is no longer attempting to shock.

2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-18:

(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).


catharsis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis).


cinema

en-noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

→ Bengali: সিনেমা (śinema)

→ Gujarati: સિનેમા (sinemā)

→ Hindi: सिनेमा (sinemā)

→ Kannada: ಸಿನಮಾ (sinamā)

→ Lao: ຊິເນມາ (si nē mā)

→ Malayalam: സിനിമ (sinima)

→ Punjabi: ਸਿਨਮਾ (sinmā)

→ Sinhalese: සිනමාහල (sinamāhala)

→ Tamil: சினிமா (ciṉimā)

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→ Telugu: సినిమా (sinimā), సైన్మ (sainma), సీన్మ (sīnma) — Telangana

→ Urdu: سِنیما (sinemā)

→ Welsh: sinema

→ Yoruba: sinimá

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

der

Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].

The French and Italian cinemas can seem to persist autonomously—in the sense of being spaces of separate development and marked difference from Hollywood and other national cinemas.

2005, Tom O'Regan, Australian National Cinema, page 79:

(film, countable, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography


comedy

en-noun

comedy (countable and uncountable, plural comedies)

comedies (plural)
comedie (alternative)
comœdie (alternative obsolete)
comœdy (alternative archaic)

drama

antonym(s) of “light, humorous, or satirical work”

→ Japanese: コメディ (komedi)

→ Korean: 코미디 (komidi)

From Middle English comedie, from Middle French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”). Doublet of commedia.

(countable, drama) a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.

unk

unknown origin

en:production control room, in television program creation

(television) The production control room.


panorama

pl-noun

panorama f (related adjective panoramowy)

panoramowy (adjective)
panorama (nominative singular)
panoramy (nominative plural)
panoramy (genitive singular)
panoram (genitive plural)
panoramie (dative singular)
panoramom (dative plural)
panoramę (accusative singular)
panoramy (accusative plural)
panoramą (instrumental singular)
panoramami (instrumental plural)
panoramie (locative singular)
panoramach (locative plural)
panoramo (singular vocative)
panoramy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English panorama, French panorama, German Panorama, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὅραμα (hórama).

(film, literature) panorama (comprehensive presentation of an issue in a literary work or film) [with genitive ‘of what’]


praxis

en-noun

praxis (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises)

Partly from Latin prāxis and partly from its etymon Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).

bor

(drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.

ihmistoiminta

drama: deliberate action of a rational being


FPS

frames per second
frame per second#English

(film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.


background

en-noun

background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)

backgrounds (plural)
back ground (alternative obsolete)

(film) An extra who appears in the background, with no speaking role.


lines

I have yet to learn my lines.

(film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.


viva

eo-head

viva (accusative singular vivan, plural vivaj, accusative plural vivajn)

vivan (accusative singular)
vivaj (plural)
vivajn (accusative plural)


dissolve

en-verb

dissolve (third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved)

dissolves (present singular third-person)
dissolving (participle present)
dissolved (participle past)
dissolved (past)

Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve.

ərimək

intransitive: to be disintegrated into a solution by immersion

(cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.


dissolve

While most of the film is done in medium and long shots (connected with dissolves and wipes which lend a lovely period effect)

1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

(cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next


highlight

Un jugador espectacular para ver en los "highlights", pero no creo que su estilo de juego encaje con el de este equipo.

2009 June 3, Borch, “Tema Eto'o”, in es.rec.deportes.futbol (Usenet):

A brilliant player to watch in the highlights, but I don't think his play style fits with his team's.


film noir

en-noun

film noir (countable and uncountable, plural film noirs or films noirs)

film noirs (plural)
films noirs (plural)

Borrowed from French film noir (“dark film”, literally “black film”), attributed to French film critic Nino Frank (1946).

bor

During this period his own films were being studied alongside classic film noir together with European arthouse cinema and the works of directors from around the world.

2017, Ian Brookes, Film Noir: A Critical Introduction, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(film, uncountable) A film genre characterized by low-key lighting, a bleak urban setting, and corrupt, cynical or desperate characters.


previously

(television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.

az előző részek tartalmából

recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series


mature

en-adj

mature (comparative more mature, superlative most mature)

more mature (comparative)
most mature (superlative)

From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).

/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/

mature content

(television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.


trombone

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

affix

The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.

1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131:

The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.

2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, page 480:

(film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.


trombone

en-verb

trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

trombones (present singular third-person)
tromboning (participle present)
tromboned (participle past)
tromboned (past)

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]

2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357:

He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]

2014, Henry K. Miller, The Essential Raymond Durgnat, page 71:

(film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.


rating

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

(television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)


watershed

Compound of water + shed. Calque of German Wasserscheide.

(Canada, British, television, radio) The time during the day which material of a more adult nature (e.g., violence, swear words, or sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one permitted by law or one contrived from convention (e.g. when children are not watching).

dos rombos

time after which adult material may be broadcast


MLS

en-noun

MLS (countable and uncountable, plural MLSs)

(television) Initialism of medium long shot.


black box

black boxes (plural)
blackbox (alternative)

black box
black box#History
flight recorder#Terminology
gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

* Since circa 1945 in both main senses (that is, event recorders and objects with unknown innards), which are historically related to each other; for details, see black box § History and flight recorder § Terminology.
* (type of theater): Such theaters are often painted black.

(drama) A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.


ED

From Japanese ED(エンディング) (endingu), from English ending.

(films, television) Abbreviation of ending theme (end title sequence).


facial

Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]

2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92:

(film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.


treatment

en-noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.

(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.


bleacher

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

From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish blekare. The seating was so named because the boards were bleached by the sun.

In practice, audience members often have badly obstructed views of the sets—whether due to obstructive camera dollies and production personnel or viewers sitting in the bleachers off to the side of the set that is currently being used.

2010, Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style:

(US, television, usually in the plural, by extension) The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming.


stock character

stock character (plural stock characters)

(writing, theater, film) Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.

ամպլուա

fictional character based on a recognizable stereotype


hosepipe

en-verb

hosepipe (third-person singular simple present hosepipes, present participle hosepiping, simple past and past participle hosepiped)

hosepipes (present singular third-person)
hosepiping (participle present)
hosepiped (participle past)
hosepiped (past)

(film, television) To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.


hamartia

en-noun

hamartia (usually uncountable, plural hamartias)

/ˌhæˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

/ˌhɑːˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).

der

Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.

Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.

2006, David Ratmoko, On Spectrality: Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 71:

The plot and the tragic figure at its center, destroyed through an act of hamartia, should be tailored to the production of pity and fear. Oedipus is not so much a person as he is a hamartia delivery system, a moving, empty center within the motions of the play, who through his vulnerability to hamartia and its disastrous consequences reveals the pitiable and the fearful to the audience.

2008, Daniel Greenspan, The Passion of Infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81:

But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years […] ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

(Greek drama) The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.


skip

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.


programming

en-noun

programming (usually uncountable, plural programmings)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ/

The network changed its programming to mess with DVRs again.

(broadcasting) The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme.

udsendelse

broadcasting: designing, scheduling, or planning of a radio or TV program


optical

It is a glossy film with gross, opulent opticals and little comic, or any, relief; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is; it is ponderous, Wagnerian, and feels about five hours long (its running time is about an hour).

1976 August 14, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Locker Room As The Site Of Religious Ecstasy”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 9:

If you plan to output back to film, opticals and effects can be shot on film or generated by computer and then transferred to film.

2006, David K. Irving, Peter W. Rea, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 294:

(film) Any special effect requiring laboratory work on the film.


A roll

A roll (usually uncountable, plural A rolls)

(television, film) The primary footage for non-narrative or interview-based film, usually involving talking heads or footage that directly relates to the moment.


caster

caster (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
castant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
casté (participle past)
caste (first-person indicative present singular)
castes (indicative present second-person singular)
caste (indicative present singular third-person)
castons (first-person indicative plural present)
castez (indicative plural present second-person)
castent (indicative plural present third-person)
castais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
castais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
castait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
castions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
castiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
castaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
castai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
castas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
casta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
castâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
castâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
castèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
casterai (first-person future indicative singular)
casteras (future indicative second-person singular)
castera (future indicative singular third-person)
casterons (first-person future indicative plural)
casterez (future indicative plural second-person)
casteront (future indicative plural third-person)
casterais (conditional first-person singular)
casterais (conditional second-person singular)
casterait (conditional singular third-person)
casterions (conditional first-person plural)
casteriez (conditional plural second-person)
casteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
caste (first-person present singular subjunctive)
castes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
caste (present singular subjunctive third-person)
castions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
castiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
castent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
castasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
castasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
castât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
castassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
castassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
castassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
caste (imperative second-person singular)
castons (first-person imperative plural)
castez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive, film) to cast (into a role)


SBS

(Australia, broadcasting) Initialism of Special Broadcasting Service.

Seoul Broadcasting System
w:Seoul Broadcasting System

(South Korea, broadcasting) Initialism of Seoul Broadcasting System.


caption

Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).

cog

(theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.

(cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.

надписи

piece of text appearing on screen as part of a film or broadcast

sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants


ghosting

en-noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

Geisterbild

appearance of ghosts on a television screen


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.


multiplex

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

From multi- + -plex or multi- + complex.

(television) A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.


supernumerary

From Late Latin supernumerarius (“extra soldier added to a legion; supernumerary”), from super (“above; beyond”) + numerus (“number; collection, quantity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals). The word is analysable as super- + numeral + -ary.

refn

From Joseph C. Hughes (1897 September) “Supernumerary Finger Growing from First Metacarpal Bone”, in James Moores Ball, editor, Tri-State Medical Journal and Practitioner, volume IV, number 9, St. Louis, Mo.: [s.n.] 3509 Franklin Avenue, →OCLC, figure 2, page 436.

bor

[A] minor actor or supernumerary often has a better opportunity to watch great actors than the great actors themselves.

1983, H[endrik] B[rugt] G[erhard] Casimir, “Introduction”, in Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science (A Sloan Foundation Book), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Row, →ISBN; republished Amsterdam: Amsterdam Academic Archive, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, →ISBN, page 1:

Though little is known about Noble Luke Usher before his first recorded performance in Washington, D.C., in 1800, it is certain that he made the rounds of the eastern theatres as a supernumerary before as well as after that year.

2009, West T. Hill, Jr., “The First Western Circuit”, in The Theatre in Early Kentucky 1790–1820, paperback edition, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 72:

(film, theater) An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.


gore

(film) gore; splatter (genre of gory horror)


kill off

en-verb

kill off (third-person singular simple present kills off, present participle killing off, simple past and past participle killed off)

kills off (present singular third-person)
killing off (participle present)
killed off (participle past)
killed off (past)

The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.

television series
television series#English

(film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.


knockdown

en-noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent.

1999, Scott Skelton, Jim Benson, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour, page 294:

(film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.


plano

Learned borrowing from Latin planus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-. Compare llano, a doublet inherited from the same source.


insert

From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.

der

(television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.

[…] close-ups of her legs on the escalator, an insert of the emergency stop button (ARRET D'URGENCE), intercut close-ups of her glance and the cinema sign, […]

2013, David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, page 316:

(film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.


tramline

tramlines (plural)
tram line (alternative)

The tramline is therefore much less obvious on the screen. Also, if the scratch is on the base (i.e., on the back of the film), then it will not be in sharp focus.

1984, Movie Maker, volume 18, number 2, page 47:

(film) A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames.


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

pancakes (plural)
pan cake (alternative)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

→ Portuguese: panqueca, (dated) panqueque, (dated) pancake

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

→ Spanish: (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) panqueque, (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) pancake, (Venezuela) panqueca

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

(countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.


aktoro

From Esperanto aktoro (“actor”), English actor, French acteur, Italian attore, Spanish actor, Russian актёр (aktjór), from Latin āctor.

(theater, film) actor; actress (male or female)


wide-angle

en-adj

wide-angle (comparative wider-angle, superlative widest-angle)

wider-angle (comparative)
widest-angle (superlative)

(cinematography, photography) Of or pertaining to a short focal length lens that has an angle of view greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to an image produced with such a lens.


wilco

Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.

(radio communications) Indicates agreement and compliance.


wilco

en-verb

wilco (third-person singular simple present wilcos, present participle wilcoing, simple past and past participle wilcoed)

wilcos (present singular third-person)
wilcoing (participle present)
wilcoed (participle past)
wilcoed (past)

(radio communications, rare) To give the "wilco" indication.


stew

en-noun

stew (usually uncountable, plural stews)

→ Japanese: シチュー (shichū)

From Middle English stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman estouve, Old French estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *extufāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). See also Italian stufare, Portuguese estufar. Compare also Old English stuf-bæþ (“a hot-air bath, vapour bath”); see stove.

cog

mike stew

(broadcasting, slang) Unwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.


dodge

en-verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

dodges (present singular third-person)
dodging (participle present)
dodged (participle past)
dodged (past)

Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

cog

(photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker.

varjostaa

photography: to decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print


monter

monter (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
montant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
monté (participle past)
monte (first-person indicative present singular)
montes (indicative present second-person singular)
monte (indicative present singular third-person)
montons (first-person indicative plural present)
montez (indicative plural present second-person)
montent (indicative plural present third-person)
montais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
montais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
montait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
montions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
montiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
montaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
montai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
montas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
monta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
montâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
montâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
montèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
monterai (first-person future indicative singular)
monteras (future indicative second-person singular)
montera (future indicative singular third-person)
monterons (first-person future indicative plural)
monterez (future indicative plural second-person)
monteront (future indicative plural third-person)
monterais (conditional first-person singular)
monterais (conditional second-person singular)
monterait (conditional singular third-person)
monterions (conditional first-person plural)
monteriez (conditional plural second-person)
monteraient (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)
monte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
montes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
monte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
montions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
montiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
montent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
montasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
montasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
montât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
montassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
montassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
montassent (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)
monte (imperative second-person singular)
montons (first-person imperative plural)
montez (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)

→ German: montieren

→ Polish: montaż

→ Polish: montować

→ Swedish: montera

Inherited from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).


dead air

(idiomatic, broadcasting) An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.


overnight

overnights (plural)
over night (alternative)
overnite (alternative informal)

Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently.

inh

Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.

2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time:

The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.

(television, in the plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.


playback singer

en-noun

playback singer (plural playback singers)

(singing, cinematography) A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially Bollywood musicals, where actors lip-sync them.

নেপথ্য গায়ক

singer whose songs are lip-synced by an actor


bump

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

kuhmu

phrenological protuberance and associated aptitude

(US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.


matt

(film) Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”).


soliloquy

en-noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

Augustine of Hippo
Hamlet
Soliloquiorum libri duo
To be, or not to be
William Shakespeare

1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.

Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare.

1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, J.M. Dent & Co, London, Chapter XII: Watching Blackbirds, Nightingales, Sand-martins, etc., page 315:

(drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]

1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135:

Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126:

(authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.


campo

From Latin campus (“wild field”). Compare English camp.

campo lungo


lector

lectors (plural)
lectour (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.


shojo

/ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/

/ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/

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

From Japanese 少女(しょうじょ) (shōjo, “young woman”).

shōjo (alternative)
shoujo (alternative)

(anime, manga) A style of anime and manga intended for young women.


shojo

en-adj

shojo (comparative more shojo, superlative most shojo)

more shojo (comparative)
most shojo (superlative)
shōjo (alternative)
shoujo (alternative)

/ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/

/ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shōjo manga or anime.


少女

ja-noun

少(しょう)女(じょ) • (shōjo) ^(←せうぢよ (seudyo)?)

少女 (canonical)
shōjo (romanization)
seudyo (romanization)
せうぢよ (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese compound 少女 (MC syewX|syewH nrjoX|nrjoH). Compare modern Mandarin 少女 (shàonǚ).

少女歌劇

少女歌劇 しょうじょかげき

a kind of traditional Japanese light drama with no male actors and mostly young girls playing the parts

少女趣味

少女趣味 しょうじょしゅみ

hobbies or interest common to young girls

(anime, manga) a style of anime and manga made for young women, shojo


wigging

en-noun

wigging (countable and uncountable, plural wiggings)

“So why are there so few women in the stunt industry? Many point to the practice of “wigging” – which is when male stunt actors play female characters.”

2018, Daniel Lavelle, “Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within”, in The Guardian:

(film) The practice of male stuntmen performing for actresses.


parte

parté (canonical)
ᜉᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ (Baybayin)
parti (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish parte, from Old Spanish parte (“part”), from Latin partem. Doublet of part.

(theater, film) role; stint; part (in a theatrical play, drama, or film shoot)


unity

unity (countable and uncountable, plural unities)

Etymology tree
Middle English unite
English unity
From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).

der

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).

eenheid

drama: any of the three classical rules of drama


montage

en-noun

montage (countable and uncountable, plural montages)

, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]]
Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).

ubor

THE MYTH: Training montages are inspiring, harmless fun. At some point in any sports movie, the grossly unqualified underdog will start training to the sound of some inspirational rock song.

2013 October 29, Cracked.com, The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew, Penguin, →ISBN, page 177:

Unfortunately, nothing much happens in the rest of the episode either. It gets to the point where a montage is devoted to establishing Sam's monotony at Oldtown.

2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-04:

The day after that, I was still in pain, so I cycled. The day after that, the pain was manageable, so I ran again because I love to run. This was my training montage all the way up to the paratriathlon.

2020 11, Paul D. Lowe, and 21 Global Authors, Mastering The Game Of Life: World Game-Changers Sharing Their Inspirational Stories Of Transformation, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:

(countable, television and film) A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.


montage

desc

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Chinese: 蒙太奇 (méngtàiqí)

→ English: montage

→ Greek: μοντάζ (montáz)

→ Japanese: モンタージュ

→ Italian: montaggio

→ Polish: montaż

→ Romanian: montaj

desctree

→ Russian: монтаж (montaž)
→ Armenian: մոնտաժ (montaž)
→ Georgian: მონტაჟი (monṭaži)
→ Kazakh: монтаж (montaj)

→ Turkish: montaj
→ Northern Kurdish: montaj

From monter (“to mount”) (from mont (“mount(ain)”), from Latin mons (“mountain”) + -age.


kenttä

kenttä (nominative singular)
kentät (nominative plural)
kenttä (accusative nominative singular)
kentät (accusative nominative plural)
kentän (accusative genitive singular)
kentät (accusative genitive plural)
kentän (genitive singular)
kenttien (genitive plural)
kenttäin (genitive plural rare)
kenttää (partitive singular)
kenttiä (partitive plural)
kentässä (inessive singular)
kentissä (inessive plural)
kentästä (elative singular)
kentistä (elative plural)
kenttään (illative singular)
kenttiin (illative plural)
kentällä (adessive singular)
kentillä (adessive plural)
kentältä (ablative singular)
kentiltä (ablative plural)
kentälle (allative singular)
kentille (allative plural)
kenttänä (essive singular)
kenttinä (essive plural)
kentäksi (singular translative)
kentiksi (plural translative)
kentättä (abessive singular)
kentittä (abessive plural)
kentin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kenttäni (nominative singular)
kenttäni (nominative plural)
kenttäni (accusative nominative singular)
kenttäni (accusative nominative plural)
kenttäni (accusative genitive singular)
kenttäni (accusative genitive plural)
kenttäni (genitive singular)
kenttieni (genitive plural)
kenttäini (genitive plural rare)
kenttääni (partitive singular)
kenttiäni (partitive plural)
kentässäni (inessive singular)
kentissäni (inessive plural)
kentästäni (elative singular)
kentistäni (elative plural)
kenttääni (illative singular)
kenttiini (illative plural)
kentälläni (adessive singular)
kentilläni (adessive plural)
kentältäni (ablative singular)
kentiltäni (ablative plural)
kentälleni (allative singular)
kentilleni (allative plural)
kenttänäni (essive singular)
kenttinäni (essive plural)
kentäkseni (singular translative)
kentikseni (plural translative)
kentättäni (abessive singular)
kentittäni (abessive plural)
kenttineni (comitative plural)
kenttäsi (nominative singular)
kenttäsi (nominative plural)
kenttäsi (accusative nominative singular)
kenttäsi (accusative nominative plural)
kenttäsi (accusative genitive singular)
kenttäsi (accusative genitive plural)
kenttäsi (genitive singular)
kenttiesi (genitive plural)
kenttäisi (genitive plural rare)
kenttääsi (partitive singular)
kenttiäsi (partitive plural)
kentässäsi (inessive singular)
kentissäsi (inessive plural)
kentästäsi (elative singular)
kentistäsi (elative plural)
kenttääsi (illative singular)
kenttiisi (illative plural)
kentälläsi (adessive singular)
kentilläsi (adessive plural)
kentältäsi (ablative singular)
kentiltäsi (ablative plural)
kentällesi (allative singular)
kentillesi (allative plural)
kenttänäsi (essive singular)
kenttinäsi (essive plural)
kentäksesi (singular translative)
kentiksesi (plural translative)
kentättäsi (abessive singular)
kentittäsi (abessive plural)
kenttinesi (comitative plural)
kenttämme (nominative singular)
kenttämme (nominative plural)
kenttämme (accusative nominative singular)
kenttämme (accusative nominative plural)
kenttämme (accusative genitive singular)
kenttämme (accusative genitive plural)
kenttämme (genitive singular)
kenttiemme (genitive plural)
kenttäimme (genitive plural rare)
kenttäämme (partitive singular)
kenttiämme (partitive plural)
kentässämme (inessive singular)
kentissämme (inessive plural)
kentästämme (elative singular)
kentistämme (elative plural)
kenttäämme (illative singular)
kenttiimme (illative plural)
kentällämme (adessive singular)
kentillämme (adessive plural)
kentältämme (ablative singular)
kentiltämme (ablative plural)
kentällemme (allative singular)
kentillemme (allative plural)
kenttänämme (essive singular)
kenttinämme (essive plural)
kentäksemme (singular translative)
kentiksemme (plural translative)
kentättämme (abessive singular)
kentittämme (abessive plural)
kenttinemme (comitative plural)
kenttänne (nominative singular)
kenttänne (nominative plural)
kenttänne (accusative nominative singular)
kenttänne (accusative nominative plural)
kenttänne (accusative genitive singular)
kenttänne (accusative genitive plural)
kenttänne (genitive singular)
kenttienne (genitive plural)
kenttäinne (genitive plural rare)
kenttäänne (partitive singular)
kenttiänne (partitive plural)
kentässänne (inessive singular)
kentissänne (inessive plural)
kentästänne (elative singular)
kentistänne (elative plural)
kenttäänne (illative singular)
kenttiinne (illative plural)
kentällänne (adessive singular)
kentillänne (adessive plural)
kentältänne (ablative singular)
kentiltänne (ablative plural)
kentällenne (allative singular)
kentillenne (allative plural)
kenttänänne (essive singular)
kenttinänne (essive plural)
kentäksenne (singular translative)
kentiksenne (plural translative)
kentättänne (abessive singular)
kentittänne (abessive plural)
kenttinenne (comitative plural)
kenttänsä (nominative singular)
kenttänsä (nominative plural)
kenttänsä (accusative nominative singular)
kenttänsä (accusative nominative plural)
kenttänsä (accusative genitive singular)
kenttänsä (accusative genitive plural)
kenttänsä (genitive singular)
kenttiensä (genitive plural)
kenttäinsä (genitive plural rare)
kenttäänsä (partitive singular)
kenttiään (partitive plural)
kenttiänsä (partitive plural)
kentässään (inessive singular)
kentässänsä (inessive singular)
kentissään (inessive plural)
kentissänsä (inessive plural)
kentästään (elative singular)
kentästänsä (elative singular)
kentistään (elative plural)
kentistänsä (elative plural)
kenttäänsä (illative singular)
kenttiinsä (illative plural)
kentällään (adessive singular)
kentällänsä (adessive singular)
kentillään (adessive plural)
kentillänsä (adessive plural)
kentältään (ablative singular)
kentältänsä (ablative singular)
kentiltään (ablative plural)
kentiltänsä (ablative plural)
kentälleen (allative singular)
kentällensä (allative singular)
kentilleen (allative plural)
kentillensä (allative plural)
kenttänään (essive singular)
kenttänänsä (essive singular)
kenttinään (essive plural)
kenttinänsä (essive plural)
kentäkseen (singular translative)
kentäksensä (singular translative)
kentikseen (plural translative)
kentiksensä (plural translative)
kentättään (abessive singular)
kentättänsä (abessive singular)
kentittään (abessive plural)
kentittänsä (abessive plural)
kenttineen (comitative plural)
kenttinensä (comitative plural)

[ˈk̟e̞n̪t̪ːæ]

Borrowing from Sami, ultimately from Proto-Samic *kientē.

(television, video) synonym of puolikuva (“field (in video)”)


tragedia

From Latin tragoedia, from Ancient Greek τρᾰγῳδῐ́ᾱ (trăgōidĭ́ā), from τρᾰ́γος (trắgos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).


baka

en-adj

baka (comparative more baka, superlative most baka)

more baka (comparative)
most baka (superlative)

Borrowed from Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid”).

(anime manga, fandom slang, endearing) Stupid, silly.


baka

(anime manga, fandom slang, endearing) A foolish person, a dummy, a silly goose.


ATV

Associated Television
w:Associated Television

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Associated Television.

Asia Television Limited
w:Asia Television Limited

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Asia Television Limited.

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of ATV (Austria).


ATV

en-noun

ATV (countable and uncountable, plural ATVs)

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of amateur television.


script

script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta or scriptene)

script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scripter, definite plural scriptene)

scriptet (definite singular)
script (indefinite plural)
scripta (definite plural)
scriptene (definite plural)
scripten (definite singular)
scripter (indefinite plural)
scriptene (definite plural)
skript (alternative)

Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).

(colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)


script

script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta)

script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scriptar, definite plural scriptane)

scriptet (definite singular)
script (indefinite plural)
scripta (definite plural)
scripten (definite singular)
scriptar (indefinite plural)
scriptane (definite plural)
skript (alternative)


script

Unadapted borrowing from English script. Doublet of escrito.

(acting) script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)


thriller

/ˈt̪ʰɾi.ləɾ/

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.

إِثَارَة

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction


thriller

thriller (nominative singular)
thrillery (nominative plural)
thrilleru (genitive singular)
thrillerů (genitive plural)
thrilleru (dative singular)
thrillerům (dative plural)
thriller (accusative singular)
thrillery (accusative plural)
thrillere (singular vocative)
thrillery (plural vocative)
thrilleru (locative singular)
thrillerech (locative plural)
thrillerem (instrumental singular)
thrillery (instrumental plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

ubor

(film, literature) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)


thriller

nl-noun

thriller m (plural thrillers, diminutive thrillertje n)

thrillers (plural)
thrillertje (diminutive neuter)


thriller

thriller (nominative singular)
thrillery (nominative plural)
thrillera (genitive singular)
thrillerów (genitive plural)
thrillerowi (dative singular)
thrillerom (dative plural)
thriller (accusative singular)
thrillery (accusative plural)
thrillerem (instrumental singular)
thrillerami (instrumental plural)
thrillerze (locative singular)
thrillerach (locative plural)
thrillerze (singular vocative)
thrillery (plural vocative)

Near-synonym: horror

thriller opowiada o czymś

Jest to „thriller“ w całej rozciągłości i to z rozdaju kryminalno-awanturniczego,[…].

1929 April 6, Z. Gr., “Z literatury angielskiej”, in Tygodnik Illustrowany, number 14, Warszawa: Unger, Józef, retrieved 2025-04-27, page 274:

It is a “thriller” in its entirety and from the crime-avantage rift, […].

Horrory i thrillery cieszą się nieustającym powodzeniem u publiczności, która niezależnie od panującej aktualnie w kinie mody po prostu lubi się bać.

2001 May 18, ma, “Próba sił”, in Wieczór Wybrzeża, quoted in Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego, Wrocław: Polskapresse, oddział Prasa Bałtycka, →ISSN:

Horror movies and thrillers enjoy continued success with audiences who, regardless of the current fashion in cinema, simply like to be scared.

Nowa książka amerykańskiej pisarki. Wielbiciele thrillerów psychologicznych zacierają ręce.

2006 April 14, Marcin Wilk, “Krakowska Lista Bestsellerów Książkowych”, in Dziennik Polski, quoted in Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego, Kraków: Jagiellonia, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A new book by an American writer. Fans of psychological thrillers cherish.

„Niewidzialny” to anglojęzyczna wersja japońskiego thrillera, który opowiada o... pośmiertnych losach zamordowanego nastolatka.

2007 October 5, X, “Ring po amerykańsku”, in Polska Głos Wielkopolski, quoted in Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego, Poznań: Polskapresse, oddział Prasa Poznańska, →ISSN:

“The Invisible” is an English-language version of a Japanese thriller, that tells the story of... the posthumous fate of a murdered teenager.

Niskonakładowy[,] mroczny thriller science fiction osiągnął zaskakujący sukces i otworzył wrota kariery dla Arnolda Schwarzeneggera i Jamesa Camerona.

2009 July 2, Konrad Wągrowski, “Terminator: 10 najważniejszych filmów o podróżach w czasie”, in Esencja, number 05, quoted in Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego, Warszawa: Wągrowski, Konrad, →ISSN, →OCLC:

The low-budget[,] dark science fiction thriller was a surprising success and launched the careers of Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron.

(film, literature) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film)


thriller

thrillere (plural)
thriller (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
thrillerul (accusative definite nominative singular)
thrillere (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
thrillerele (accusative definite nominative plural)
thriller (indefinite singular)
thrillerului (definite singular)
thrillere (indefinite plural)
thrillerelor (definite plural)
thrillerule (singular vocative)
thrillerelor (plural vocative)


thriller

es-noun

thriller m (plural thrillers or thriller)


thriller

thriller (indefinite nominative singular)
thrillers (genitive indefinite singular)
thrillern (definite nominative singular)
thrillerns (definite genitive singular)
thrillers (indefinite nominative plural)
thrillrar (indefinite nominative plural)
thrillers (genitive indefinite plural)
thrillrars (genitive indefinite plural)
thrillrarna (definite nominative plural)
thrillrarnas (definite genitive plural)


transcription

en-noun

transcription (countable and uncountable, plural transcriptions)

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō (“transcribe”).

From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting the American Family Robinson on a sustaining basis. Neither did, and the series ended up in transcription, recorded and circulated to individual stations by the World Broadcasting System.

1999, William L. Bird, "Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN:

Something that has been transcribed, including:

(broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.


blaxploitation

Blend of black + exploitation (from exploitation film) or blend of blax + exploitation.

(film) A genre of exploitation films of the 1970s that starred black actors.


transmissible

en-adj

transmissible (comparative more transmissible, superlative most transmissible)

more transmissible (comparative)
most transmissible (superlative)

(radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.


blockbuster

blockbuster (nominative singular)
blockbustery (nominative plural)
blockbustera (genitive singular)
blockbusterów (genitive plural)
blockbusterowi (dative singular)
blockbusterom (dative plural)
blockbuster (accusative singular)
blockbustery (accusative plural)
blockbusterem (instrumental singular)
blockbusterami (instrumental plural)
blockbusterze (locative singular)
blockbusterach (locative plural)
blockbusterze (singular vocative)
blockbustery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English blockbuster. First attested in 1997.


overplay

en-verb

overplay (third-person singular simple present overplays, present participle overplaying, simple past and past participle overplayed)

overplays (present singular third-person)
overplaying (participle present)
overplayed (participle past)
overplayed (past)

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

overdrijven

To present something more dramatically than necessary

When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.

Nevertheless, 3 Body Problem does well to pull us onward, as much through the relentless, but never overplayed, suffering and hardening of Ye Wenjie as she endures her effective imprisonment in the project grounds – and the stealing of her work by others – as by the present day mystery.

2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.


shooting

en-noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).


cadena

→ Cebuano: kadena

→ Huave: galen

→ Tagalog: kadena

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: gden

Inherited from Old Spanish cadena, from Latin catēna. Cognate with English chain.

(broadcasting, television and radio) channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)


papel

→ Old Tupi: papera
Nheengatu: papera

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese papel, borrowed from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros). Doublet of pavio and papiro.

etymon

Apesar de desempenhar vários papéis memoráveis, jamais recebeu um prêmio.

Despite having played many memorable roles, he/she never won an award.


jornal

→ Hunsrik: Schurnall

→ Tetum: jornál

Borrowed from French journal, from Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of diurnal.


retrace

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

(television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.


persuader

These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.

1953, Stanley William Amos, D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice, page 108:

One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.

(television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.


cowcatcher

Hitchhiker and cowcatcher plugs will be considered.

National advertisers have probably been major contributors to this practice through the use of so-called hitchhike and cowcatcher announcements.

1945, Charles Harold Sandage, Radio Advertising for Retailers, page 185:

Sometime in the mid-40s, the Hummerts canceled Mr. Keen and Easy Aces from their early evening periods on CBS, which also killed my cowcatchers and hitchhikes.

2009, George Ansbro, I Have a Lady in the Balcony, page 138:

(radio, advertising) An advertisement at the start of a programme.


cherry-pick

en-verb

cherry-pick (third-person singular simple present cherry-picks, present participle cherry-picking, simple past and past participle cherry-picked)

cherry-picks (present singular third-person)
cherry-picking (participle present)
cherry-picked (participle past)
cherry-picked (past)
cherry pick (alternative)
cherrypick (alternative)

A metaphor, from the idea of picking through a bowl of cherries and seeking the best for oneself, or the idea of picking off the cherries for oneself from a cake or dessert.

Those stations that will send CNN tapes of their local and regional news for CNN to cherry-pick from, in turn will be allowed to cherry-pick themselves.

1980, Television/radio age, volume 28, page 80:

(US, idiomatic, broadcasting) To broadcast selected programming from another network.


behind the scenes

behind-the-scenes (alternative)
BTS (alternative)

Many videos come with features that show what went on behind the scenes to make the movie and special effects.

The men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.

1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 134:

(idiomatic, theater, film) behind the scenery and stage area; backstage; among the actors; during the production or rehearsal


ham it up

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

hams it up (present singular third-person)
hamming it up (participle present)
hammed it up (participle past)
hammed it up (past)
ham up (alternative)

Near-synonym: camp it up

You can count on him to ham it up for the camera.

(idiomatic, acting) To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.

有意誇張 /有意夸张

performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements


junket

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to “feast or banquet” by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of “pleasure trip” (1814), and then to specifically to “trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment” by 1886 in American English.

der

An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.

2018 May 24, An Phung, Chloe Melas, “Women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior, harassment”, in CNN entertainment:

Every time anything of note happens – any time there is a junket or a new actor is cast – the issue will be front and centre.

2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


bit part

2005, Most of her work, however, consisted of bit parts. She often was cast in movies credited only as "flower vendor," "warden" or "suntan lady," — 'Five Easy Pieces' waitress dead at 85, CNN online.

(acting) A minor role, generally not assigned a name.


アニメ

→ English: anime

→ Malay: anime

→ Spanish: anime, ánime

→ Portuguese: anime, animé, animê

→ Russian: аниме (anime)

→ Hindi: ऐनिमे (ainime)

→ Burmese: အာနီမေ (anime)

→ Turkish: anime

Anime
Daijirin
Daijisen
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors
ja:アニメ
ja:松村明

Clipping of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation.
Not directly related to French animé (“animated”).

(animation, anime) anime, Japanese animation


HD

en-noun

HD (countable and uncountable, plural HDs)

Exploring a new place through seasonal work was like “experiencing life in HD”, she said. “It really cemented the idea that the best way to learn about things is just to dive straight in and get as much information as possible, particularly at that age.”

2024 October 7, Jem Bartholomew, “‘Doesn’t feel fair’: young Britons struggle with losing right to work in EU since Brexit”, in The Guardian:

(television) Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).


sidekick

From side + kick, which in the late 19th and early 20th century was a slang term for the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, known as the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.

So even though he had – no question – the best lines in Friends, he was never what he would have been in an earlier era: the sidekick.

2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre, etc., a good foil of the protagonist, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.


spit take

spit takes (plural)
spit-take (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-spit take.wav

When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take.

(acting) A take (recorded performance), generally expressing surprise or disbelief, in which the actor in the act of drinking spits out the drink.


Besetzung

de-noun

Besetzung f (genitive Besetzung, plural Besetzungen)

Besetzung (genitive)
Besetzungen (plural)
Besetzung (nominative singular)
Besetzungen (definite nominative plural)
Besetzung (genitive singular)
Besetzungen (definite genitive plural)
Besetzung (dative singular)
Besetzungen (dative definite plural)
Besetzung (accusative singular)
Besetzungen (accusative definite plural)

From besetzen (“to place, fill, occupy”) + -ung. Compare Dutch bezetting (“occupation”).


Dad

de-noun

Dad m (strong, genitive Dads, plural Dads)

Dads (genitive)
Dads (plural)
Dad (nominative singular)
Dads (definite nominative plural)
Dads (genitive singular)
Dads (definite genitive plural)
Dad (dative singular)
Dads (dative definite plural)
Dad (accusative singular)
Dads (accusative definite plural)

(colloquial, chiefly film, media) dad; Dad


H

(UK, film, historical) Abbreviation of horrific, a former film classification.


K

From the Etruscan letter 𐌊 (k, “ka”), from the Ancient Greek letter Κ (K, “kappa”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤊 (k, “kap”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓂧.


M

en-noun

M (countable and uncountable, plural Ms)

(US, film) A film with the content rating M.


Mum

Mum (genitive)
Mums (plural)
Mum (nominative singular)
Mums (definite nominative plural)
Mum (genitive singular)
Mums (definite genitive plural)
Mum (dative singular)
Mums (dative definite plural)
Mum (accusative singular)
Mums (accusative definite plural)

(colloquial, chiefly film, media) mum; Mum; mom; Mom


P

P (countable and uncountable, plural Ps)

product placement
product placement#English

(UK, television) Initialism of product placement (displayed on screen as an indicator to viewers).


Pilot

de-noun

Pilot m (weak, genitive Piloten, plural Piloten, feminine Pilotin)

Piloten (genitive)
Piloten (plural)
Pilotin (feminine)
Pilot (nominative singular)
Piloten (definite nominative plural)
Piloten (genitive singular)
Piloten (definite genitive plural)
Piloten (dative singular)
Piloten (dative definite plural)
Piloten (accusative singular)
Piloten (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: pilot

→ Estonian: piloot

Ca. 1500, from Italian pilota, in part through Middle French pilote.

(film) ellipsis of Pilotfilm or Pilotfolge


Plan

head

Plan m (plural Pläne, diminutive Plänche)

Pläne (plural)
Plänche (diminutive)
Plahn (alternative)
Plaan (alternative)
Plang (alternative Moselle-Franconian Western dialectal)

Borrowed from French plan, possibly derived from Latin planus. Compare Hunsrik Plaan.


S

en-noun

S (countable and uncountable, plural Ss)

Abbreviation.
S
# (Stenoscript) the sound sequence /st/ in a word, e.g. it's the transcription of the suffix -ist.
# (Stenoscript) the prefix sub-
#: [some manuals advise lower-case s for the prefix sub-]
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of south.
# (education) Initialism of satisfactory.


U

en-adj

U (not generally comparable, comparative Uer, superlative Uest)

An abbreviation of a word or term beginning with the letter U. Adjective sense 1 (“characteristic of the upper classes”) was coined by British linguist Alan S. C. Ross (1907–1980) in a 1954 article, and popularized by the English journalist and writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973).

(not comparable, UK, film) Abbreviation of universal (“suitable for all ages”), in a film certificate.


Western

de-noun

Western m (strong, genitive Westerns or Western, plural Western)

Westerns (genitive)
Western (genitive)
Western (plural)
Western (nominative singular)
Western (definite nominative plural)
Westerns (genitive singular)
Western (genitive singular)
Western (definite genitive plural)
Western (dative singular)
Western (dative definite plural)
Western (accusative singular)
Western (accusative definite plural)


Zoom

Zoom m (strong, genitive Zooms, no plural)

Zooms (genitive)
Zoom (nominative singular)
Zooms (genitive singular)
Zoom (dative singular)
Zoom (accusative singular)

(photography, film) zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens


boutique

→ Cebuano: botik

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of apotheke and bodega.

(film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.


юпитер

ru-noun+

юпи́тер • (jupíter) m inan (genitive юпи́тера, nominative plural юпи́теры, genitive plural юпи́теров)

юпи́тер • (jupíter) m inan (genitive юпи́тера, nominative plural юпитера́, genitive plural юпитеро́в)

юпи́тер (canonical)
jupíter (romanization)
юпи́тера (genitive)
юпи́теры (nominative plural)
юпи́теров (genitive plural)
юпи́тер (canonical)
jupíter (romanization)
юпи́тера (genitive)
юпитера́ (nominative plural)
юпитеро́в (genitive plural)
юпи́тер (nominative singular)
юпи́теры (nominative plural)
юпитера́ (nominative plural)
jupítery (nominative plural)
jupiterá (nominative plural)
юпи́тера (genitive singular)
юпи́теров (genitive plural)
юпитеро́в (genitive plural)
юпи́теру (dative singular)
юпи́терам (dative plural)
юпитера́м (dative plural)
юпи́тер (accusative singular)
юпи́теры (accusative plural)
юпитера́ (accusative plural)
jupítery (accusative plural)
jupiterá (accusative plural)
юпи́тером (instrumental singular)
юпи́терами (instrumental plural)
юпитера́ми (instrumental plural)
юпи́тере (prepositional singular)
юпи́терах (plural prepositional)
юпитера́х (plural prepositional)

(cinematography) projector, a powerful electric arc lamp used in motion-picture filming.


DB

(television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.


long shot

long shots (plural)
longshot (alternative)

The term arose from the accuracy of early naval guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance.

(film) A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later.


CB

CB (plural)
C-B (alternative)
C.-B. (alternative)
C.B. (alternative)
C. B. (alternative)

(radio) initialism of canal banalisé (“citizens' band”)


DV

en-noun

DV (countable and uncountable, plural DVs)

Vincent opened it and found a video camera, a Panasonic. She recognized it as one of the new kind that took DV tapes, but it still had an unexpected weight.

2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 67:

(television) Initialism of digital video.

(television) Initialism of described video.


HDTV

ja-noun

エッチディー ティーブイ

HDTV (canonical)
etchidī tībui (romanization)

高精細度テレビジョン 高精細度テレビジョン#Japanese

high-definition television
high-definition television#English

(television) synonym of 高精細度テレビジョン (kōseisaido terebijon, “high-definition television”); HDTV


DD

(India, broadcasting) Abbreviation of Doordarshan, a state public broadcaster of India.


fondu

From Early Medieval Latin fundūtus (“melted”).

inh

fondu au noir


fondu

fonduuri (plural)
fondu (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fonduul (accusative definite nominative singular)
fonduuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
fonduurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
fondu (indefinite singular)
fonduului (definite singular)
fonduuri (indefinite plural)
fonduurilor (definite plural)
fonduule (singular vocative)
fonduurilor (plural vocative)


vox

From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice.

The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together. If you're the lucky junior sent to do voxes, there are some technical matters […]

2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook:

(broadcasting, informal) Ellipsis of vox pop.


cruft

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.

(film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.


scoop

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.

gloss

"a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">schop</i> (“spade”)

cog

(film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.


masthead

(television, by extension) The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident.


TNN

The Nashville Network
w:The Nashville Network

(US, television, historical) Initialism of The Nashville Network.


box-office bomb

en-noun

box-office bomb (plural box-office bombs)

My favorite movie was a giant box-office bomb.

(informal, film) A motion picture that generates relatively low revenue at the box office, especially less than the budget for producing it.


trece

ro-verb

a trece (third-person singular present trece, past participle trecut) 3rd conjugation

a trece 3rd conjugation (canonical)
trece (present singular third-person)
trecut (participle past)
a trece (infinitive)
trecând (gerund)
trecut (participle past)
trec (first-person indicative present singular)
treci (indicative present second-person singular)
trece (indicative present singular third-person)
trecem (first-person indicative plural present)
treceți (indicative plural present second-person)
trec (indicative plural present third-person)
treceam (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
treceai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
trecea (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
treceam (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
treceați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
treceau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
trecui (first-person indicative perfect singular)
trecuși (indicative perfect second-person singular)
trecu (indicative perfect singular third-person)
trecurăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
trecurăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
trecură (indicative perfect plural third-person)
trecusem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
trecuseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
trecuse (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
trecuserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
trecuserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
trecuseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să trec (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să treci (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să treacă (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să trecem (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să treceți (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să treacă (plural present subjunctive third-person)
treci (imperative second-person singular)
treceți (imperative plural second-person)
nu trece (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu treceți (imperative negative plural second-person)

(intransitive, television jargon, of a program) to show (be on television)


kicker

[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]

1984, Media Report to Women, volume 12, page 46:

Instead, a reporter can carve out a niche as an entertainment/community reporter, thus concentrating their efforts on filing feature stories for the E block, where the kickers are slated. Kickers are feel-good pieces placed at the end of the newscast to leave viewers in a good mood […]

2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 77:

(radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

(film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.


squib

Possibly imitative of a small explosion.

unk

Possibly

(film, theater) In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface or a gunshot wound on an actor.


ADR

en-noun

ADR (countable and uncountable, plural ADRs)

/eɪ diː ˈɑː/

(broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of automatic dialogue replacement.

(film, uncountable) Initialism of additional/audio dialogue replacement.


improv

improv (countable and uncountable, plural improvs)

(acting) A form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience.


Japanimation

Japanimation (countable and uncountable, plural Japanimations)

Japanimations (plural)
japanimation (alternative)

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

Cool! Japanimation.

2001, “HOMЯ”, in The Simpsons, season 12, episode 9, spoken by Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright):

(anime, dated) Synonym of anime (“Japanese animated cartoons”).


MAV

MAV (countable and uncountable, plural MAVs)

(Australia, television, uncountable) Initialism of mature adult audience (“Strong Violence”).


AMC

(television) Initialism of All My Children: an American television soap opera broadcast from 1970 to 2013.


SIU

(broadcasting) Initialism of (television or radio) sets in use.


FTA

(broadcasting, telecommunications) Abbreviation of free to air.


produit

Past participle of produire, or borrowed from Latin productus and adapted to French conjugation.


TBS

Turner Broadcasting System
w:Turner Broadcasting System

(US, television) Initialism of Turner Broadcasting System.

Tokyo Broadcasting System
w:Tokyo Broadcasting System

(JP, television) Initialism of Tokyo Broadcasting System.


TVA

(Canada, television) initialism of Téléviseurs / Télédiffuseurs associés (“Associated Telecasters”)


CCTV

China Central Television
w:China Central Television

(broadcasting, China) Initialism of China Central Television.

中国中央電視台

ちゅうごくちゅうおうでんしだい

中国中央テレビジョン

ちゅうごくちゅうおうテレビジョン


DP

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

From the shotlist, the DP can figure out, to some extent, how many lighting changes each scene will require.

2013, Arthur Vincie, Preparing for Takeoff: Preproduction for the Independent Filmmaker:

From the first, jungle-set shot, the redoubtable d.p. Hélène Louvart gives the film the daubed, traffic-light palette of a ripe mango; were it possible, you’d expect it to have an aroma to match.

2019 May 25, Guy Lodge, “Film Review: ‘The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão’”, in Variety:

director of photography
director of photography#English

(film) Initialism of director of photography.


ACE

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

(film) A member of American Cinema Editors


OB

OB (countable and uncountable, plural OBs)

(television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcast.

(television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcasting.


emission

All too often, such shows result in destroying any idea that the topic just _could possibly_ be serious. I also discussed with gothic friends, telling they once were interviewed by people claiming to be creating an emission about gothics... just to discover later that the real topic was sects!

2002 June 13, Laura Dove, “Documentary about vampires”, in alt.vampyres (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-18:

(non-native speakers' English, broadcasting) A show; a program.


WGA

The use of AI in the production of film and television – either to write scripts, generate actors’ likenesses, or cut corners in paying creative work, has been a major point of contention in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Sag and the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

2023 July 26, Adrian Horton, “Netflix lists AI job worth $900,000 amid twin Hollywood strikes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The W.G.A.’s negotiating committee recognized that A.I. had to be on the table, and not simply as something to be resisted or refused.

2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Writers Guild of America
w:Writers Guild of America

(US, film, television) Initialism of Writers Guild of America, the labor union representing writers of film and television.


R&F

(broadcasting) Initialism of reach and frequency.


GF

(television) initialism of Grande Fratello, the Italian-language version of the reality show Big Brother.


walk-on

(theater, film) An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.


newscast

(broadcasting, journalism) A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.


newscaster

Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.

1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin:

Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."

1997, Mervin Block, Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger, →ISBN, page 154:

It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”

2019 April 19, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, “Harro! I shrub because, really, I have no otherwise, do I?”, in The East African, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

(broadcasting, journalism) One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.