"American shot" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Calque of the French term \"plain Américan\", which was used because this type of shot was commonly used in American westerns.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "American shots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "American shot (plural American shots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of medium long shot"
      ],
      "id": "en-American_shot-en-noun-OSQl2O77",
      "links": [
        [
          "medium long shot",
          "medium long shot#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
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          "word": "medium long shot"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ken Dancyger, The Technique of Film and Video Editing, page 117",
          "text": "Sturges did not use close‐ups; he favored the three‐quarter shot, or American shot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 78",
          "text": "The film begins in an American shot; we are already closer to Talley than we were to Martinelli.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, André F. Nebe, Humour and successful children's films, page 282",
          "text": "In total, the scene uses the American shot four times, close-up twice, longl shot once, and detail shot once.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American, shot."
      ],
      "id": "en-American_shot-en-noun-vH2cp729",
      "links": [
        [
          "American",
          "American#English"
        ],
        [
          "shot",
          "shot#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "American shot"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of the French term \"plain Américan\", which was used because this type of shot was commonly used in American westerns.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "American shots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "American shot (plural American shots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of medium long shot"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medium long shot",
          "medium long shot#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
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          ],
          "word": "medium long shot"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ken Dancyger, The Technique of Film and Video Editing, page 117",
          "text": "Sturges did not use close‐ups; he favored the three‐quarter shot, or American shot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 78",
          "text": "The film begins in an American shot; we are already closer to Talley than we were to Martinelli.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, André F. Nebe, Humour and successful children's films, page 282",
          "text": "In total, the scene uses the American shot four times, close-up twice, longl shot once, and detail shot once.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American, shot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "American",
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        ],
        [
          "shot",
          "shot#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "American shot"
}