turnaround

turnaround (countable and uncountable, plural turnarounds)

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

/ˈtɜːnəˌɹaʊnd/

/ˈtɜɹnəˌɹaʊnd/

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


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

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

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


arc

→ Irish: arc

→ Maltese: ark

→ Welsh: arc

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

der

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


flag

en-noun

flag (countable and uncountable, plural flags)

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

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

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

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

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

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

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


plan

→ Central Franconian: Plan

Hunsrik: Plaan

→ German: Plan

→ Norwegian Bokmål: plan

→ Luxembourgish: Plang

→ Ottoman Turkish: پلان
Turkish: plan

→ Persian: پلان (pelân)

→ Polish: plan
→ Kashubian: plan

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


plan

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

→ Kashubian: plan

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

ref

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

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

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


drama

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

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

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

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


process

en-verb

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

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

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

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


antagonist

[ɛə̯nˈtæɡənɪst]

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

der

ἀνταγωνιστής

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

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

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


antagonist

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


magazine

→ Burmese: မဂ္ဂဇင်း (magga.jang:)

→ Cebuano: magasin

→ Dutch: magazine

→ French: magazine

→ Portuguese: magazine

→ Italian: magazine

→ Gujarati: મેગેઝિન (megejhin)

→ Hebrew: מגזין (magazin)

→ Japanese: マガジン (magajin)

desc

→ Kashubian: magazina (Canada, United States)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Spanish: magacín

→ Turkish: magazin

→ Malay: magazin

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

ref

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

etydate

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

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

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

1984, Telecommunications, volume 18, page 89:

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


raw

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

der

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

生肉

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


ghost

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1999, The Golden Age of Musicals, page 50:

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


method

en-noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

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

mètode

(programming) subroutine or function in object-oriented languages

my very easy method just speeds up naming planets

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

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

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


ellipsis

ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)

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

der

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

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


focus

en-noun

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

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

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

bor+

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

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

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

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

fokus

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

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


synopsis

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

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


trailer

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

From Dutch trailer, from English trailer.

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


trailer

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

Unadapted borrowing from English trailer.

ubor

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


trailer

trailers (plural)
trêiler (alternative rare)

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


dress

en-verb

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

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

→ Sranan Tongo: dresi

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

aantrek

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

self aantrek

to put on clothes — see also get dressed

koristaa

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

siistiä

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

whakahuene

referring to preparing rough sawn timber

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

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

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

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

lavastaa

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


dress

en-noun

dress (countable and uncountable, plural dresses)

→ Japanese: ドレス (doresu)

→ Korean: 드레스 (deureseu)

→ Norwegian: dress

→ Pennsylvania German: Dress

→ Scottish Gaelic: dreasa

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


kleur

af-verb

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

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

(photography, cinematography) to colorize, to colourise


practical

en-adj

practical (comparative more practical, superlative most practical)

more practical (comparative)
most practical (superlative)

theoretical

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

impractical

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

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

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

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


practical

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

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

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


moment

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

Learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum. First attested in 1592.

ref

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

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


passer

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

→ Alemannic German: passiere

→ German: passieren

desc

Romanian: → pasa, → trece (semantic loan)

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


traveller

travellers (plural)
traveler (alternative US)

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

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

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

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


opposite

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

(television) On another channel at the same time.


opposite

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


reveal

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

cog

завуали́ровать

m+

разобла́чать

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

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

2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, →ISBN:

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

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

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

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

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


gig

en-verb

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

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

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

The Rolling Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time.

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

keikkailla

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

მუსიკალურ წარმოდგენაში მონაწილეობა


frost

en-noun

frost (countable and uncountable, plural frosts)

frosts (plural)
froste (alternative obsolete)

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

cog

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

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


telescope

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

der

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

1963, Television Engineering: Report, page 245:

(television) A retractable tubular support for lights.


acting

en-noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.


out

outs (plural)
oute (alternative obsolete)

→ Greek: άουτ (áout)

→ Japanese: アウト (auto)

→ Korean: 아웃 (aut)

→ Spanish: out

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

inh

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

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


spot

(cinematography, theater) spotlight, spot

(television) spot; a brief segment on television


spot

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

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


spot

sk-noun

spot m inan (relational adjective spotový)

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

sk:Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny

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


agent

pl-noun

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

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

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

agent literacki

(acting, literature) impresario, literary agent


wallpaper

en-noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)

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

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

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

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

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


cinta

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

cinta de seguridad

security tape, surveillance tape, security footage

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

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

cinta cinematográfica
cinta cinematográfica#Spanish

(film) ellipsis of cinta cinematográfica; film


drop

en-verb

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

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

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

спадам

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

laskea

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

laskea

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

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

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

ilmestyä

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

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

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

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

julkaista

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


NTSC

w:National Television Standards Committee

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


NTSC

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


NTSC

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


PAL

en-noun

PAL (countable and uncountable, plural PALs)

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


serial

az-noun

serial (definite accusative serialı, plural seriallar)

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

From Russian сериа́л (seriál), from English serial.

türk serialları

Azərbaycanlılar türk seriallarına baxmağı çox sevirlər.

Azerbaijanis love watching Turkish TV-series.


serial

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

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


redhead

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

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

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


single

→ Dutch: single

→ Finnish: sinkku

→ German: Single

→ Indonesian: singel

→ Japanese: シングル (shinguru)

→ Korean: 싱글 (singgeul)

→ Polish: singiel

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

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

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


tema

temas (plural)
thema (alternative obsolete)

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

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


theme

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

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

der

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


first-person

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

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


package

en-noun

package (countable and uncountable, plural packages)

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

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

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

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


distant

en-adj

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

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

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

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

1973, Cable Television, Rand Corporation:

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

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

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


loma

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

spēlēt lomu

lomas teksts

mācīties lomu no galvas

tēlot galveno lomu

loma bez vārdiem

sadalīt lomas

(theater, cinematography) role, part, character


chapter

chapters (plural)
chapiter (alternative)
chapitre (alternative)
chapiture (alternative)
chaptre (alternative)
chapyter (alternative)
chapytre (alternative)
chaptire (alternative)

→ Cebuano: tsapter

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

der

Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books.

1842, Walter Farquahar Hook, A Church Dictionary, published 1896:

At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,

1963, Charles Duggan, Twelfth-century Decretal Collections and Their Importance in English History, page 127:

il conclut: « No pope, no collection but the masters who served the one and commented on the other ultimately determined the content of this decretal chapter».

1983, Revue théologique de Louvain - Volume 14, page 127:

But unlike a similar annotation, it has not been turned into a chapter title because the annotation “de quodam hermita” (Of a certain hermit) immediately preceded it. If a scribe had also turned Liberauit Dominus hermitam into a chapter title, he would have created a chapter that consisted of a single sentence, which even for a rather dull scribe would seem unacceptable. […] While scribe A wrote the body of the text of the De nugis curialium, scribe X contributed the rubricated chapter headings.

2017, Joshua Byron Smith, Walter Map and the Matter of Britain, page 67:

While rubrics do not appear in paper manuscripts, eight paper manuscripts contain chapter titles, which serve the same function as the medieval rubrics.

2018, Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Emily Lethbridge, New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga, page xvii:

Characteristics: parchment; 92 fols.; 260 × 180 mm.; 32 lines; Italy; ca. 1430; two hands: humanistic rotunda with some Gothic features; marginal notes by first hand and names by a second hand; space left for initials; rubric inscriptions; superscript variants by first hand; chapters marked in margin; horizontal catchwords; quaternions.

2018, David J. Hunt, A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri, page 152:

From canon law, he cited Gratian's Decretum, Gregory's Decretales, the Sexto and Clementines Decretales, and the Extravagantes, and specifically referred to “the rules for understanding the Law” in a decretal chapter on Propterea.

2021, David T. Orique, The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias, page 97:

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.


junction

→ Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)

→ Japanese: ジャンクション

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.

2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336:

Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.

2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show:

(radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.


prop

They used the trophy as a prop in the movie.

(theater, film) An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.

реквизит

item placed on a stage to create a scene


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

vrapues

somebody who runs, who moves at a fast pace

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

Agent noun of run; one who runs.
(film) An assistant.

Agent noun of run; one who runs.
An assistant.


Pluto

Borrowed from Latin Plūtō, borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”). Venetia Burney is often credited as having suggested the name for the celestial body.

Ceres

most likely dwarf planets of the Solar System

(film, art) The American cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Norm Ferguson.

Pluto

animated dog in various Disney productions


Pluto

Ultimately derived from Latin Plūtō, derived from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn).

der+

(film, art) Pluto (animated dog in various Disney productions)


Aufzug

de-noun

Aufzug m (strong, genitive Aufzuges or Aufzugs, plural Aufzüge)

Aufzuges (genitive)
Aufzugs (genitive)
Aufzüge (plural)
Aufzug (nominative singular)
Aufzüge (definite nominative plural)
Aufzuges (genitive singular)
Aufzugs (genitive singular)
Aufzüge (definite genitive plural)
Aufzug (dative singular)
Aufzuge (dative singular)
Aufzügen (dative definite plural)
Aufzug (accusative singular)
Aufzüge (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ūfzuc, verbal noun of ūfziehen.

Im dritten Aufzug kommt die große Überraschung.

In the third act comes the big surprise.


programmer

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmə/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/

*program + -er (US) / programme + -er (UK)

The handful of never-ending summer classics annually activated by rock-radio programmers.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 151:

So if there is a real shortage of training material and opportunities for radio programmers, then let's write some.

(radio, television) One who decides which programs will be shown on a television station, or which songs will be played on a radio station.

ohjelmapäällikkö

one who decides which programs will be shown on a television station


hero

en-noun

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense) heros)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

The preparation of the hero food involves any number of specialized techniques food stylists have developed to deal with the demands of photographing food.

2003, Solomon H. Katz, William Woys Weaver, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture:

Protect the hero food. Whether the hero items are on a table in the studio or in the refrigerator, freezer, etc., be sure they are identified as hero items and not for consumption.

2008, Linda Bellingham, Jean Ann Bybee, Brad G. Rogers, Food Styling for Photographers, page 8:

The food stylists this day had spent inordinate amounts of time preparing the hero product for a close-up scene.

2008, David Random, Defying Gravity, page 24:

(film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.


dystopia

dystopia (nominative singular)
dystopie (nominative plural)
dystopii (genitive singular)
dystopii (genitive plural)
dystopij (archaic genitive plural)
dystopii (dative singular)
dystopiom (dative plural)
dystopię (accusative singular)
dystopie (accusative plural)
dystopią (instrumental singular)
dystopiami (instrumental plural)
dystopii (locative singular)
dystopiach (locative plural)
dystopio (singular vocative)
dystopie (plural vocative)

(film, literature) dystopia (vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society)


print

en-noun

print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)

cursive

antonym(s) of “writing without connected letters”

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

cog

(film) A copy of a film that can be projected.


fin

French language
fin
fin (disambiguation)

From French fin (“end”). Doublet of fine and finis.


v-chip

Stands for violence chip, coined and devised by Tim Collings, promoted by the William Jefferson Clinton Administration.

(television) Any censorship technology that allows parents to control the level of objectionable content that their children may see on television.


super

Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry.

2009, James Robert Parish, Jim Henson, page 114:

(television) A superimposed caption or image.


super

en-verb

super (third-person singular simple present supers, present participle supering, simple past and past participle supered)

supers (present singular third-person)
supering (participle present)
supered (participle past)
supered (past)

Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]

1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:


камера

uk-noun

ка́мера • (kámera) f inan (genitive ка́мери, nominative plural ка́мери, genitive plural ка́мер, relational adjective ка́мерний)

ка́мера (canonical)
kámera (romanization)
ка́мери (genitive)
ка́мери (nominative plural)
ка́мер (genitive plural)
ка́мерний (adjective relational)
ка́мера (nominative singular)
ка́мери (nominative plural)
ка́мери (genitive singular)
ка́мер (genitive plural)
ка́мері (dative singular)
ка́мерам (dative plural)
ка́меру (accusative singular)
ка́мери (accusative plural)
ка́мерою (instrumental singular)
ка́мерами (instrumental plural)
ка́мері (locative singular)
ка́мерах (locative plural)
ка́меро (singular vocative)
ка́мери (plural vocative)


cámara

Inherited from Old Spanish camara, borrowed from Vulgar Latin camara, variant of Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of cambra.

der

(cinematography) cameraman, camera operator (somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera)


doceo

la-verb

doceō (present infinitive docēre, perfect active docuī, supine doctum); second conjugation

doceō (canonical)
docēre (infinitive present)
docuī (active perfect)
doctum (supine)
doceō (active first-person indicative present singular)
docēs (active indicative present second-person singular)
docet (active indicative present singular third-person)
docēmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
docētis (active indicative plural present second-person)
docent (active indicative plural present third-person)
docēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
docēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
docēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
docēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
docēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
docēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
docēbō (active first-person future indicative singular)
docēbis (active future indicative second-person singular)
docēbit (active future indicative singular third-person)
docēbimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
docēbitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
docēbunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
docuī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
docuistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
docuit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
docuimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
docuistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
docuērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
docuēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
docueram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
docuerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
docuerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
docuerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
docuerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
docuerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
docuerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
docueris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
docuerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
docuerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
docueritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
docuerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
doceor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
docēris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
docēre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
docētur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
docēmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
docēminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
docentur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
docēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
docēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
docēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
docēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
docēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
docēbor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
docēberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
docēbimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
docēbiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
docēbuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
doceam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
doceās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
doceāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
doceātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
doceant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
docērem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
docērēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docēret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docērēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
docērētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docērent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docuerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
docuerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docuerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docuerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
docuerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docuerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docuissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
docuissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docuisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docuissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
docuissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docuissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docear (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
doceāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
doceāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
doceāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
doceantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
docērer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
docērēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
docērēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
docērētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
docērēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
docērēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
docērentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
docē (active imperative present second-person singular)
docēte (active imperative plural present second-person)
docētō (active future imperative second-person singular)
docētō (active future imperative singular third-person)
docētōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
docentō (active future imperative plural third-person)
docēre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
docēminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
docētor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
docētor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
docentor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
docēre (active infinitive present)
docērī (infinitive passive present)
docēns (active participle present)
doctūrum esse (active future infinitive)
doctum īrī (future infinitive passive)
doctūrus (active future participle)
docendus (future participle passive)
docuisse (active infinitive perfect)
doctum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
doctus (participle passive perfect)
doctum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
doctūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
docendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
docendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
docendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
docendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
doctum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
doctū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

Old Occitan: dozer

Old French: duire, doire (homophone for duire 'lead' < dūcere)

French: duire (archaic or regional (Normandy))

→ Ido: docar

From Proto-Italic *dokeō, from earlier *dokejō, causative of Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I expect, suppose, seem”) and Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I accept, receive”). The sense "rehearse, present on stage" is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek διδάσκω (didáskō).


web

From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

[…] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]

1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:

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.

(dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.


goof

Perhaps from dialectal English goff (“foolish clown”), from earlier goffe, in which case further etymology is uncertain.
Perhaps from Middle English goffen (“to speak in a frivolous manner”), possibly from Old English gaf, ġegaf (“base; wanton; lewd”, adjective), ġegaf (“buffoonery; scurrility”, noun), gaffetung, golfettung (“buffoonery; mockery”). Compare English dialectal gauffin (“lightheaded; foolish; giddy”), Scots gaff, gawf (“to talk loudly; babble”), Scots gaffaw (“a loud laugh”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Middle French goffe (“awkward; stupid”). Compare also Spanish gofo, Italian goffo.

inh

(US, cinematography, informal) An error made during production which finds its way into the final release.

coquille

an error made during production which finds its way into the final release


portmanteau film

en-noun

portmanteau film (plural portmanteau films)

Allusion to the idea of a portmanteau in the linguistic sense.

We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.

2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71:

(film, television) A film that combines two or more distinct stories, frequently connected by a single theme, premise, or author.


deus ex machina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós).

der

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (plot resolution in ancient tragedy involving the sudden and unexpected appearance of a deity)

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation)


gate

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.

2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.


kine

(television) Clipping of kinescope (“type of recording”).


breakdown

en-noun

breakdown (countable and uncountable, plural breakdowns)

breakdowns (plural)
break-down (alternative)

sınma

failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature

(uncountable) Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.

(film, television, countable) A detailed description of a forthcoming project or screenplay which identifies all the required elements, such as the cast, costumes, equipment, props, and special effects.


fade

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

(music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).


noir

en-adj

noir (comparative more noir, superlative most noir)

more noir (comparative)
most noir (superlative)

Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.

As a neo-Sherlock Holmes, however, Mulder is also a very noir version of the classic detective (just as Scully is a very noir Watson).

2008, Jerold J. Abrams, Elizabeth Cooke, “Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files”, in The Philosophy of TV Noir, →ISBN, page 182:

(film, television) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre


noir

en-noun

noir (countable and uncountable, plural noirs)

(film and television, uncountable) Film noir.

Several noirs, including “Raw Deal,” have been set here.

2007 January 29, Wendell Jamieson, “Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, Nights Are Noir in Fog City”, in New York Times:

(film and television, countable) A production in the style of film noir.


avail

avail (countable and uncountable, plural avails)

From Middle English availen (“to be of use”), from Old French a (“to”) + vail from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valere (“to be worthy, strong”).

The salesperson at an affiliate TV station might prepare an avail which offers two weeks of spots in early and late news[…].

1994, Barry L. Sherman, Telecommunications Management: Broadcasting/cable and the New Technologies, →ISBN, page 353:

At an avail, the ad server plays out the MPEG-2 audio/video elementary streams.

2004, Walter S. Ciciora et al., Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications, →ISBN, page 123:

(television, advertising) An advertising slot or package.

(British, acting) Non-binding notice of availability for work.


spaghetti

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek.
The verb is derived from the noun.

مَعْكَرُونَة

type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings

spagetti

something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled

spaghetti western
spaghetti western#English

(by extension, countable) Denoting Italianness.

(film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).


crab

en-verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

crabs (present singular third-person)
crabbing (participle present)
crabbed (participle past)
crabbed (past)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]

1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen, page 109:

(transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.


disco

la-verb

discō (present infinitive discere, perfect active didicī, supine discitum); third conjugation

discō (canonical)
discere (infinitive present)
didicī (active perfect)
discitum (supine)
discō (active first-person indicative present singular)
discis (active indicative present second-person singular)
discit (active indicative present singular third-person)
discimus (active first-person indicative plural present)
discitis (active indicative plural present second-person)
discunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
discēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
discēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
discēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
discēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
discēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
discēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
discam (active first-person future indicative singular)
discēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
discet (active future indicative singular third-person)
discēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
discētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
discent (active future indicative plural third-person)
didicī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
didicistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
didicit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
didicimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
didicistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
didicērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
didicēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
didiceram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
didicerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
didicerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
didicerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
didicerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
didicerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
didicerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
didiceris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
didicerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
didicerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
didiceritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
didicerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
discor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
disceris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
discere (indicative passive present second-person singular)
discitur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
discimur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
disciminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
discuntur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
discēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
discēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
discēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
discēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
discēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
discēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
discēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
discar (first-person future indicative passive singular)
discēris (future indicative passive second-person singular)
discēre (future indicative passive second-person singular)
discētur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
discēmur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
discēminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
discentur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
discam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
discās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
discat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
discāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
discātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
discant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
discerem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
discerēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
disceret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
discerēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
discerētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
discerent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
didicerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
didicerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
didicerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
didicerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
didicerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
didicerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
didicissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
didicissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
didicisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
didicissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
didicissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
didicissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
discar (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
discāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
discāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
discātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
discāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
discāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
discantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
discerer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
discerēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
discerēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
discerētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
discerēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
discerēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
discerentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
disce (active imperative present second-person singular)
discite (active imperative plural present second-person)
discitō (active future imperative second-person singular)
discitō (active future imperative singular third-person)
discitōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
discuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
discere (imperative passive present second-person singular)
disciminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
discitor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
discitor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
discuntor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
discere (active infinitive present)
discī (infinitive passive present)
discēns (active participle present)
discitūrum esse (active future infinitive)
discitum īrī (future infinitive passive)
discitūrus (active future participle)
discendus (future participle passive)
discundus (future participle passive)
didicisse (active infinitive perfect)
discitum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
discitus (participle passive perfect)
discitum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
discitūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
discendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
discendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
discendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
discendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
discitum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
discitū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *dɨskɨd

Breton: deskiñ

Cornish: dyski

Welsh: dysgu

From Proto-Italic *diskō, from earlier *dikskō, from Proto-Indo-European *di-dḱ-ské-ti, a reduplicated durative, inchoative and suffixed verb from the root *deḱ- (“to take”). From the same root as doceō; unrelated to discipulus.
Cognates include Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai), whereas δαῆναι (daênai) is attributed to another root, *dens-, together with δεδαώς (dedaṓs), δήνεα (dḗnea) and διδάσκω (didáskō).


foil

en-noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

As Puss comes to realize his legendary status is not a substitute for interpersonal connection, his interactions with Kitty and the therapy dog start to take on a surprising amount of weight, while Goldilocks serves as a well-realized foil who has more in common with Puss that is at first apparent.

2022 December 20, Leigh Monson, “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review: Antonio Banderas leads the best film yet in the Shrek franchise”, in AV Club:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.

contrastfiguur

character who helps emphasise the traits of the main character


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.


ingenue

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.

2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland, →ISBN, page 396:

(theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

naiva

a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:

(television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.

(Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away

(Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.

(Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

(informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").


clapboard

(film) A clapperboard; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.


girafa

→ Hunsrik: Schiraff

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
Classical Persian سرنا
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Portuguese girafa
Borrowed from Italian giraffa.

etymon

(Brazil, film, television) boom (movable pole used to support a microphone or camera)


mosca

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca.


mosca

Inherited from Old Spanish mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare English midge.

digital on-screen graphic
digital on-screen graphic


barrel

barrels (plural)
barrell (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternative connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic *𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (*bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

vat

round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop

Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached.

2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 325:

The barrel, which is usually from 2.0 m to 2.5 m long, and capable of lifting loads up to 120 kg, is suspended from the main housing which contains the motor gearbox unit, etc.

2013, Brian Fitt, Joe Thornley, Lighting Technology, page 118:

(television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.


editor

editors (plural)
ed. (alternative abbreviation)
edit. (alternative abbreviation)
Ed. (alternative)
editour (alternative obsolete rare)

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From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

(television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

монтажи́ст

someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

(television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.


TNT

(television) initialism of television numérique terrestre (“digital OTA (digital over-the-air television)”)


wrap

wrap (countable and uncountable, plural wraps)

From Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).

This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.

2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:

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

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

(television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.


rom com

rom coms (plural)
romcom (alternative)
rom-com (alternative)


blimp

Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A. D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
: “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”

onom

onomatopoeia

You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]

2015, Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 209:

(film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

der

Tomlinson, Shawn M. (2015) Going Pro for $200 & How to Choose a Prime Lens, →ISBN, page 72: “By the time I shifted to my first autofocus film SLR with the Pentax PZ-10, primes were considered things of the past”

(film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.


master

masters (plural)
maistre (alternative archaic)
Marse (alternative Caribbean US dialectal obsolete)
marse (alternative Caribbean US dialectal obsolete)
mas'r (alternative)
Master (alternative)
mastre (alternative obsolete)
maister (alternative obsolete)
mayster (alternative obsolete)
Massa (alternative)
massa (alternative)
massah (alternative)
massy (alternative)
masta (alternative)
Mastah (alternative)
mastah (alternative)
mastuh (alternative)
measter (alternative UK obsolete pronunciation-spelling)
mester (alternative dialectal)
mister (alternative dialectal)

Sranan Tongo: masra

→ Catalan: màster

→ Finnish: master

→ French: master

→ German: Master

→ Polish: master

→ Portuguese: máster

→ Spanish: máster

→ Turkish: master

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

doublet

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

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


narrator

Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.

(film and television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.


fill

en-noun

fill (countable and uncountable, plural fills)

From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.

(film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.


cena

(theater, film, television, radio) scene (part of a dramatic work)


lav

When you’re recording interviews, it’s best to use a lav.

lavalier microphone
lavalier microphone#English

(film, informal) Clipping of lavalier microphone.


spud

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable^([sic])) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]

1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film, page 299:

(film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.


cutaway

cutaways (plural)
cut-away (alternative)

fraklip

the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else

the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor.

2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:

(television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.

Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]

(television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.

plan de coupe

a cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker


مترجم

ar-adj

مُتَرْجَمُونَ

مُتَرْجَمَات

مُتَرْجَم • (mutarjam) (feminine مُتَرْجَمَة (mutarjama), masculine plural مُتَرْجَمُونَ (mutarjamūna), feminine plural مُتَرْجَمَات (mutarjamāt))

مُتَرْجَم (canonical)
mutarjam (romanization)
مُتَرْجَمَة (feminine)
مُتَرْجَمُونَ (masculine plural)
مُتَرْجَمَات (feminine plural)
مُتَرْجَم (indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَم (definite informal masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَة (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَة (ar-infl-a definite feminine informal singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمٌ (indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمُ (definite masculine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَةٌ (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَةُ (ar-infl-a definite feminine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمًا (accusative indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَ (accusative definite masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَةً (accusative ar-infl-a feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite feminine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمٍ (genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمِ (definite genitive masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَةٍ (ar-infl-a feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَةِ (ar-infl-a definite feminine genitive singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَيْن (dual indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَيْن (definite dual informal masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine informal singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَانِ (dual indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَانِ (definite dual masculine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine nominative singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (accusative definite dual masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual feminine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَيْنِ (definite dual genitive masculine singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمُتَرْجَمَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine genitive singular triptote)
مُتَرْجَمِين (indefinite informal masculine plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمِين (definite informal masculine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمُونَ (indefinite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمُونَ (definite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمِينَ (accusative indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمِينَ (accusative definite masculine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمِينَ (genitive indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمِينَ (definite genitive masculine plural sound-form)
مُتَرْجَمَاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمُتَرْجَمَاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)

Derived from the passive participle of the verb تَرْجَمَ (tarjama, “to translate”), from the root ت ر ج م (t r j m).


bloop

en-verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

bloops (present singular third-person)
blooping (participle present)
blooped (participle past)
blooped (past)

onom

Imitative

Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.

1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96:

(television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.


cam

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

(cinematography) cam (device for filming)


iris

irises (plural)
iris (plural)
irides (plural)

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.

der

(photography, cinematography) A diaphragm used to regulate the size of a hole, especially as a way of controlling the amount of light reaching a lens.


iris

Borrowed from Dutch iris (“iris”), from Middle French iris, from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris).

(anatomy, photography, cinematography) iris


loge

→ German: Loge

→ Dutch: loge

→ Macedonian: ложа (loža)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: losje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: losje

→ Polish: loża

→ Russian: ло́жа (lóža)

→ Persian: لژ (lož)

→ Swedish: loge

→ Ukrainian: ло́жа (lóža)

Inherited from Middle French loge, from Old French loge. The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

etymon

(theater, television) dressing room (a room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup)


mire

Borrowed from Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“to wonder at”).


nodder

(television) Synonym of noddy (“cutaway scene of an interviewer nodding”).


tenner

The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.

2008, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, page 11:

(film, slang) A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.


banner

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.


brute

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).

der

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For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]

1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191:

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

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

(film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.


dolly

Welsh: doli

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

rattaat

term not specific to bridge construction

(film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.


drift

en-noun

drift (countable and uncountable, plural drifts)

From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).

cog

There is another form of drift when playing in a scene with other actors.

1970, Michael Pate, The Film Actor: Acting for Motion Pictures and Television, page 64:

(uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.