elimination

en-noun

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

(television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.


extra

(acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.


extra

(film) extra; walk-on (actor in a small role with no dialogue)


gritty

en-adj

gritty (comparative grittier, superlative grittiest)

grittier (comparative)
grittiest (superlative)

(film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

drsný

intense and starkly realistic, especially if violent


incrustation

From Latin incrustātiōnem (“encrustation”).


mime

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch mime, from French mime, from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos).


premise

premises (plural)
premiss (alternative)
præmise (alternative archaic)
præmiss (alternative archaic)

From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”).
The sense "a piece of real estate" arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense.

der

In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.

2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:

(authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.


prise

→ Dutch: prise

→ Greek: πρίζα (príza)

→ Persian: پریز (periz)

→ Romanian: priză

→ Turkish: priz


redress

en-verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

redresses (present singular third-person)
redressing (participle present)
redressed (participle past)
redressed (past)
re-dress (alternative)

Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.

1989, American Cinematographer, volume 70, Hollywood, Calif.: ASC Holding Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:

[Val] Lewton would redress standing sets, turning a church into an insane asylum or the staircase for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons into the staircase for the young girl's apartment in Cat People. […] [Y]ou should be thinking about trying to reuse every location you have as another location, either by using another room or another angle or re-dressing what's already there.

2004, Michael P. DiPaolo, “How to be a Guerrilla Filmmaker”, in The Six Day Horror Movie: A No-Nonsense Guide to No-Budget Filmmaking, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 120:

(film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.


redress

redresses (plural)
re-dress (alternative)

The Honeydukes set in this film is a redress of the set of Flourish and Blotts that was seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which, in turn, was a redress of the Ollivander's set from the first film.

c.''' 2008, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, in Wikipedians, editors, Harry Potter: The Complete Guide, [Mainz, Germany]: PediaPress, page 595:

(film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.


reel

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.

der

(film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.


scene

scenes (plural)
scæne (alternative archaic)

From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.

The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.

The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.

There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

(theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.

տեսարան

(theater, film, television, radio) part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time


scene

scene! (canonical)
scæne (alternative archaic)

Near-synonym: cut!

(film and television) A notice to actors that their performance has ended


vestige

From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”).

[J]ust a trace, or vestige, of the other sideband is included. In the receiver detection circuitry the vestige of the lower sideband is added to the upper sideband.

2003, Tarmo Anttalainen, Introduction to Telecommunications Network Engineering, page 133:

(television, radio) The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.


mai

(anime, manga, fandom slang, Internet slang) Alternative form of my (used in the expressions mai waifu and mai husbando)


jerk off

en-noun

jerk off (countable and uncountable, plural jerk offs)

jerk offs (plural)
J-O (alternative abbreviation)
J/O (alternative abbreviation)

He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.

2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s:

(film) A stunt in which the performer is suddenly pulled off a horse, etc. by means of a cable.


trip

trip (nominative singular)
tripy (nominative plural)
tripu (genitive singular)
tripów (genitive plural)
tripowi (dative singular)
tripom (dative plural)
trip (accusative singular)
tripy (accusative plural)
tripem (instrumental singular)
tripami (instrumental plural)
tripie (locative singular)
tripach (locative plural)
tripie (singular vocative)
tripy (plural vocative)

(film) movie with phantasmagoric images and scenes


triptych

triptychs (plural)
triptich (alternative)

From Ancient Greek τρίπτυχος (tríptukhos, “consisting of three layers, threefold”), from τρι- (tri-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “a fold”).

uder

Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
triptych

The centerpiece of the show is a poised, luminous, tender, and diabolically clever video installation, “Le Triptyque de Noirmoutier” (The Noirmoutier Triptych), which Varda shot on 35-mm. film[…]. The man gets himself a bottle of beer; the older woman heads with dishes from the sink toward the cupboard—and crosses the dividing line of the triptych exactly like crossing a threshold.

2017 March 27, Richard Brody, “Agnès Varda’s Art of Being There”, in The New Yorker:

(by extension) A group of three people or works, especially when considered representative of a particular field or theme.

(film) A film or video sequence intended to be shown on a triple screen with the use of linked projectors.


PTA

The result is a film that certainly does amaze, and bears several of the PTA hallmarks: breathtaking confidence, a love of acting and of visual beauty, and an exceptional grasp of the art of storytelling.

2008 January 4, Ed Pilkington, “'Tell the story! Tell the story!'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Paul Thomas Anderson
w:Paul Thomas Anderson

(film) Initialism of Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker.


संधि

saṃdhí (romanization)
संधिः (nominative singular)
संधी (dual nominative)
संधयः (nominative plural)
संधिम् (accusative singular)
संधी (accusative dual)
संधीन् (accusative plural)
संधिना (instrumental singular)
संधिभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
संधिभिः (instrumental plural)
संधये (dative singular)
संधिभ्याम् (dative dual)
संधिभ्यः (dative plural)
संधेः (ablative singular)
संधिभ्याम् (ablative dual)
संधिभ्यः (ablative plural)
संधेः (genitive singular)
संध्योः (dual genitive)
संधीनाम् (genitive plural)
संधौ (locative singular)
संध्योः (dual locative)
संधिषु (locative plural)
संधे (singular vocative)
संधी (dual vocative)
संधयः (plural vocative)
सन्धि (alternative)

→ English: sandhi

→ Marathi: संधी (sandhī)

Pali: sandhi

→ Tamil: சந்தி (canti)


colossal

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from colossal. First attested in 1986.

(film, theater) high-budget film or play with a high production value, ensemble cast, etc.


variety

en-noun

variety (countable and uncountable, plural varieties)

varieties (plural)
variete (alternative)
varietie (alternative)
variëty (alternative)

From Middle French varieté (“variety”) (modern French variété (“variety; genre, type”)) or directly from its etymon Latin varietās (“difference; diversity, variety”) + English -ty (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives); by surface analysis, various + -ety. Varietās is derived from varius (“different, diverse, various; variegated”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to abandon; to give out; to leave”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). The English word displaced the native Old English mislīcnes.
Sense 1.3.2 (“total number of distinct states of a system; logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system”) was coined by the English psychiatrist William Ross Ashby (1903–1972) in his work An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956).
Cognates
* Galician variedade (“variety”)
* Italian varietà (“difference; variety”)
* Portuguese variedade (“variety”)
* Spanish variedad (“breed; variety”)

der

(radio, television, theater) Ellipsis of variety performance or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).

variety performance
variety performance#English

variety performance or variety show

(radio, television, theater) The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.


prompt

en-verb

prompt (third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted)

prompts (present singular third-person)
prompting (participle present)
prompted (participle past)
prompted (past)

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”). Doublet of pronto.
The verb is from Middle English prompen, apparently from the adjective. The noun is from the verb.

der

If he forgets his words I will prompt him.

(transitive, theater and television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

sufloj

to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing


atelier

pl-noun

atelier n (indeclinable, related adjective atelierowy)

Unadapted borrowing from French atelier.


MGM

(film) Initialism of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a US movie studio.


actio

la-noun

āctiō f (genitive āctiōnis); third declension

āctiō (canonical feminine)
āctiōnis (genitive)
āctiō (nominative singular)
āctiōnēs (nominative plural)
āctiōnis (genitive singular)
āctiōnum (genitive plural)
āctiōnī (dative singular)
āctiōnibus (dative plural)
āctiōnem (accusative singular)
āctiōnēs (accusative plural)
āctiōne (ablative singular)
āctiōnibus (ablative plural)
āctiō (singular vocative)
āctiōnēs (plural vocative)

→ Asturian: aición, aciu

→ Belarusian: а́кцыя (ákcyja)

→ Catalan: acció

→ Corsican: azzione, azzioni

→ Czech: akce

→ Dutch: actie

→ German: Aktie

→ Danish: aktie

→ Malay: aksi

→ Friulian: azion

→ Galician: acción

→ Georgian: აქცია (akcia)

→ German: Aktion

→ Italian: azione

→ Ladin: azion

→ Ladino: aksión

→ Occitan: accion

→ Old French: action

desctree

→ Middle English: accioun, accion, accyon, accyoune, acsyon, action, actioun
English: action
→ Arabic: أَكْشِن (ʔakšin)
→ Bulgarian: екшън (ekšǎn)
→ German: Action
→ Irish: aicsean
→ Hebrew: אקשן (akshn)
→ Japanese: アクション (akushon)
→ Korean: 액션 (aeksyeon)
→ Russian: экшн (ekšn)
Scots: action

French: action

→ Romanian: acțiune

→ Piedmontese: assion

→ Polish: akcja, akcyja (Middle Polish), akcya (pre-reform orthography (1816)) (learned)
→ Kashubian: akcjô

→ Portuguese: ação

→ Russian: а́кция (ákcija)

→ Serbo-Croatian: а̀кција, àkcija

→ Sicilian: azziuni, azzioni

→ Maltese: azzjoni

→ Spanish: acción

→ Ukrainian: а́кція (ákcija)

From āctum + -tiō, using the supine of agō (“do, make”).

(drama) the action, plot, series of events


actio

cy-verb

actio (first-person singular present actiaf)

actiaf (first-person present singular)
actiaf (first-person future indicative present singular)
ecti (future indicative present second-person singular)
actia (future indicative present singular third-person)
actiwn (first-person future indicative plural present)
ectiwch (future indicative plural present second-person)
actiwch (future indicative plural present second-person)
actiant (future indicative plural present third-person)
ectir (future impersonal indicative present)
actiwn (conditional first-person singular)
actiwn (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ectit (conditional second-person singular)
ectit (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
actiai (conditional singular third-person)
actiai (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
actiem (conditional first-person plural)
actiem (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
actiech (conditional plural second-person)
actiech (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
actient (conditional plural third-person)
actient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ectid (conditional impersonal)
ectid (imperfect impersonal indicative)
ectiais (first-person preterite singular)
ectiaist (preterite second-person singular)
actiodd (preterite singular third-person)
actiasom (first-person plural preterite)
actiasoch (plural preterite second-person)
actiasant (plural preterite third-person)
actiwyd (impersonal preterite)
actiaswn (first-person pluperfect singular)
actiasit (pluperfect second-person singular)
actiasai (pluperfect singular third-person)
actiasem (first-person pluperfect plural)
actiasech (pluperfect plural second-person)
actiasent (pluperfect plural third-person)
actiasid (impersonal pluperfect)
actiesid (impersonal pluperfect)
actiwyf (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ectiech (present second-person singular subjunctive)
actio (present singular subjunctive third-person)
actiom (first-person plural present subjunctive)
actioch (plural present second-person subjunctive)
actiont (plural present subjunctive third-person)
actier (impersonal present subjunctive)
actia (imperative second-person singular)
actied (imperative singular third-person)
actiwn (first-person imperative plural)
ectiwch (imperative plural second-person)
actiwch (imperative plural second-person)
actient (imperative plural third-person)
actier (imperative impersonal)
actio (noun-from-verb)
actiedig (participle)
actiadwy (participle)
actia i (first-person future singular)
actiaf i (first-person future singular)
acti di (future second-person singular)
actith o (future singular third-person)
e (future singular third-person)
hi (future singular third-person)
actiff e (future singular third-person)
actiwn ni (first-person future plural)
actiwch chi (future plural second-person)
actian nhw (future plural third-person)
actiwn i (conditional first-person singular)
actswn i (conditional first-person singular)
actiet ti (conditional second-person singular)
actset ti (conditional second-person singular)
actiai fo (conditional singular third-person)
fe (conditional singular third-person)
hi (conditional singular third-person)
actsai fo (conditional singular third-person)
actien ni (conditional first-person plural)
actsen ni (conditional first-person plural)
actiech chi (conditional plural second-person)
actsech chi (conditional plural second-person)
actien nhw (conditional plural third-person)
actsen nhw (conditional plural third-person)
actiais i (first-person preterite singular)
acties i (first-person preterite singular)
actiaist ti (preterite second-person singular)
actiest ti (preterite second-person singular)
actiodd o (preterite singular third-person)
e (preterite singular third-person)
hi (preterite singular third-person)
action ni (first-person plural preterite)
actioch chi (plural preterite second-person)
action nhw (plural preterite third-person)
actia (imperative second-person singular)
actiwch (imperative plural second-person)
actio
hactio (prothesis-h)


rock and roll

/ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/

From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was an euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.

rock-and-roll (alternative)
rock'n'roll (alternative)
rock 'n' roll (alternative)
rock n roll (alternative)
rock 'n roll (alternative)
rock-n-roll (alternative)
rock-'n'-roll (alternative)
rock & roll (alternative)

The dubbing theatre is a viewing theatre equipped for running the picture with a great many tracks interlocked to run synchronously. Once laced up, they can be run forwards or backwards remaining in synch; when it was first introduced this system was given the name 'rock and roll'.

2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 56:

It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take. If you need to stop for some reason — the performance isn't quite right, there's a rustle of papers, etc — you can always go back on the recording and pick it up from the point at which it went wrong. This is known as rock and roll.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 196:

An alternative method is the use of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), which consists basically of a high speed rock and roll dubbing system and a programmable locating device.

2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book, pages 38–7:

(film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.


televisio

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

tele- + visio; adapted form of French télévision.


feuilleton

→ English: feuilleton

→ German: Feuilleton

→ Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone

→ Swedish: följetong

→ Danish: føljeton


CV

en-noun

CV (countable and uncountable, plural CVs)

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

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

initialism

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


post

we'll fix it in post

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

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


rushes

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


screen

en-verb

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

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

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

der

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

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

上映

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


western

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

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


western

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


strip

en-noun

strip (countable and uncountable, plural strips)

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

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

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

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


strip

en-verb

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

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

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

cog

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


cutter

→ Catalan: cúter

→ Korean: 커터 (keoteo)

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

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

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

(television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.


dresser

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

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


fringe

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

der

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


crawl

→ Portuguese: crol, crawl

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

cog

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

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


cyberpunk

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

Unadapted borrowing from English cyberpunk.

ubor

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


cyberpunk

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

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


quadro

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

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

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


outline

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

juoni

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


cutting

en-noun

cutting (countable and uncountable, plural cuttings)

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


ethos

la-noun

ēthos n (genitive ētheos); irregular, third declension

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos).

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

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

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


catharsis

en-noun

catharsis (countable and uncountable, plural catharses)

/kəˈθɑɹˌsɪs/

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

uder

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

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

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


catharsis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis).


cinema

en-noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

→ Bengali: সিনেমা (śinema)

→ Gujarati: સિનેમા (sinemā)

→ Hindi: सिनेमा (sinemā)

→ Kannada: ಸಿನಮಾ (sinamā)

→ Lao: ຊິເນມາ (si nē mā)

→ Malayalam: സിനിമ (sinima)

→ Punjabi: ਸਿਨਮਾ (sinmā)

→ Sinhalese: සිනමාහල (sinamāhala)

→ Tamil: சினிமா (ciṉimā)

desc

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

→ Urdu: سِنیما (sinemā)

→ Welsh: sinema

→ Yoruba: sinimá

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

der

Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].

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

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

(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].

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

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

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


comedy

en-noun

comedy (countable and uncountable, plural comedies)

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

drama

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

→ Japanese: コメディ (komedi)

→ Korean: 코미디 (komidi)

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

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


gallery

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

unk

unknown origin

en:production control room, in television program creation

(television) The production control room.


panorama

pl-noun

panorama f (related adjective panoramowy)

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

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

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


praxis

en-noun

praxis (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises)

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

bor

(drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.

ihmistoiminta

drama: deliberate action of a rational being


FPS

frames per second
frame per second#English

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


background

en-noun

background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)

backgrounds (plural)
back ground (alternative obsolete)

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


lines

I have yet to learn my lines.

(film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.


dissolve

en-verb

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

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

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

ərimək

intransitive: to be disintegrated into a solution by immersion

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


dissolve

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

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

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


film noir

en-noun

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

film noirs (plural)
films noirs (plural)

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

bor

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

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

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


previously

(television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.

az előző részek tartalmából

recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series


mature

en-adj

mature (comparative more mature, superlative most mature)

more mature (comparative)
most mature (superlative)

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

/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/

mature content

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


trombone

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

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

affix

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

1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131:

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

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

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


trombone

en-verb

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

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

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

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

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

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

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

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


rating

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

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


watershed

Compound of water + shed. Calque of German Wasserscheide.

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

dos rombos

time after which adult material may be broadcast


MLS

en-noun

MLS (countable and uncountable, plural MLSs)

(television) Initialism of medium long shot.


black box

black boxes (plural)
blackbox (alternative)

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

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

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


ED

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

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


facial

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

af

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

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

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


treatment

en-noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.

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


bleacher

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

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

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

2010, Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style:

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


stock character

stock character (plural stock characters)

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

ամպլուա

fictional character based on a recognizable stereotype


hosepipe

en-verb

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

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

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


hamartia

en-noun

hamartia (usually uncountable, plural hamartias)

/ˌhæˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

/ˌhɑːˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

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

der

Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


optical

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

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

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

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

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


A roll

en-noun

A roll (usually uncountable, plural A rolls)

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


caster

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

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


caption

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

cog

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

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

надписи

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

sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants


ghosting

en-noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

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

Geisterbild

appearance of ghosts on a television screen


multiplex

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

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


supernumerary

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

refn

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

bor

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

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

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

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

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


gore

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


kill off

en-verb

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

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

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

television series
television series#English

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


knockdown

en-noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

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

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

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


plano

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


insert

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

der

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

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

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

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


tramline

tramlines (plural)
tram line (alternative)

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

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

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


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

pancakes (plural)
pan cake (alternative)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

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

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

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

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

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

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


aktoro

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

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


wide-angle

en-adj

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

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

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


dodge

en-verb

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

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

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

cog

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

varjostaa

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


monter

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

→ German: montieren

→ Polish: montaż

→ Polish: montować

→ Swedish: montera

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


overnight

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

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

inh

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

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

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

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


playback singer

en-noun

playback singer (plural playback singers)

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

নেপথ্য গায়ক

singer whose songs are lip-synced by an actor


matt

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


soliloquy

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


campo

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

campo lungo


lector

lectors (plural)
lectour (alternative obsolete)

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

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

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

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


shojo

/ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/

/ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/

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

shōjo (alternative)
shoujo (alternative)

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


shojo

en-adj

shojo (comparative more shojo, superlative most shojo)

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

/ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/

/ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/

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


少女

ja-noun

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

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

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

少女歌劇

少女歌劇 しょうじょかげき

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

少女趣味

少女趣味 しょうじょしゅみ

hobbies or interest common to young girls

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


wigging

en-noun

wigging (countable and uncountable, plural wiggings)

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

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

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


parte

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

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

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


unity

unity (countable and uncountable, plural unities)

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

der

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

eenheid

drama: any of the three classical rules of drama


montage

en-noun

montage (countable and uncountable, plural montages)

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

ubor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


montage

desc

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Chinese: 蒙太奇 (méngtàiqí)

→ English: montage

→ Greek: μοντάζ (montáz)

→ Japanese: モンタージュ

→ Italian: montaggio

→ Polish: montaż

→ Romanian: montaj

desctree

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

→ Turkish: montaj
→ Northern Kurdish: montaj

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


kenttä

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

[ˈk̟e̞n̪t̪ːæ]

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

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


tragedia

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


baka

en-adj

baka (comparative more baka, superlative most baka)

more baka (comparative)
most baka (superlative)

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

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


baka

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


ATV

Associated Television
w:Associated Television

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Associated Television.

Asia Television Limited
w:Asia Television Limited

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Asia Television Limited.

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


ATV

en-noun

ATV (countable and uncountable, plural ATVs)

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of amateur television.


script

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

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

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

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

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


script

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

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

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


script

Unadapted borrowing from English script. Doublet of escrito.

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


thriller

/ˈt̪ʰɾi.ləɾ/

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

إِثَارَة

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction


thriller

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

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

ubor

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


thriller

nl-noun

thriller m (plural thrillers, diminutive thrillertje n)

thrillers (plural)
thrillertje (diminutive neuter)


thriller

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

Near-synonym: horror

thriller opowiada o czymś

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nowa książka amerykańskiej pisarki. Wielbiciele thrillerów psychologicznych zacierają ręce.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


thriller

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


thriller

es-noun

thriller m (plural thrillers or thriller)


thriller

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


blaxploitation

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

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


blockbuster

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

Unadapted borrowing from English blockbuster. First attested in 1997.


overplay

en-verb

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

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

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overdrijven

To present something more dramatically than necessary

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

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

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

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


shooting

en-noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

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


cadena

→ Cebuano: kadena

→ Huave: galen

→ Tagalog: kadena

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: gden

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

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


papel

→ Old Tupi: papera
Nheengatu: papera

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

etymon

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

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


jornal

→ Hunsrik: Schurnall

→ Tetum: jornál

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


retrace

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

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


persuader

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

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

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

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


behind the scenes

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

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

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

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

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


ham it up

en-verb

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

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

Near-synonym: camp it up

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

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

有意誇張 /有意夸张

performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements


junket

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

der

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

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

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

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


bit part

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

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


アニメ

→ English: anime

→ Malay: anime

→ Spanish: anime, ánime

→ Portuguese: anime, animé, animê

→ Russian: аниме (anime)

→ Hindi: ऐनिमे (ainime)

→ Burmese: အာနီမေ (anime)

→ Turkish: anime

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

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

(animation, anime) anime, Japanese animation


HD

en-noun

HD (countable and uncountable, plural HDs)

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

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

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


sidekick

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

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

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

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


spit take

spit takes (plural)
spit-take (alternative)

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

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


Besetzung

de-noun

Besetzung f (genitive Besetzung, plural Besetzungen)

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

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


Dad

de-noun

Dad m (strong, genitive Dads, plural Dads)

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

(colloquial, chiefly film, media) dad; Dad


H

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


M

en-noun

M (countable and uncountable, plural Ms)

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


Mum

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

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


P

P (countable and uncountable, plural Ps)

product placement
product placement#English

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


Pilot

de-noun

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

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

→ Czech: pilot

→ Estonian: piloot

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

(film) ellipsis of Pilotfilm or Pilotfolge


Plan

head

Plan m (plural Pläne, diminutive Plänche)

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

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


S

en-noun

S (countable and uncountable, plural Ss)

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


U

en-adj

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

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

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


Western

de-noun

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

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


Zoom

Zoom m (strong, genitive Zooms, no plural)

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

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


boutique

→ Cebuano: botik

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of apotheke and bodega.

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


юпитер

ru-noun+

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

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

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

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


DB

(television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.


long shot

long shots (plural)
longshot (alternative)

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

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


DV

en-noun

DV (countable and uncountable, plural DVs)

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

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

(television) Initialism of digital video.

(television) Initialism of described video.


HDTV

ja-noun

エッチディー ティーブイ

HDTV (canonical)
etchidī tībui (romanization)

高精細度テレビジョン 高精細度テレビジョン#Japanese

high-definition television
high-definition television#English

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


fondu

From Early Medieval Latin fundūtus (“melted”).

inh

fondu au noir


fondu

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