"live action" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /laɪv ˈækʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-live action.wav [Southern-England]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} live action (uncountable)
  1. (often used attributively) Filmed video, as opposed to video produced by animation or by computer graphics. Tags: attributive, often, uncountable Categories (topical): Film Translations (video that has been produced by filming): 真人作品 (zhēnrén zuòpǐn) (Chinese Mandarin), näytelty (Finnish), prise de vues réelles [feminine] (French), film aksi hidup (Indonesian), beoghníomhaíocht [feminine] (Irish), 実写 (jissha) (Japanese), lakonan langsung (Malay), aksi langsung (Malay), aksi nyata (Malay), acción real [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-live_action-en-noun-Y8NmgsiH Disambiguation of Film: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English retronyms, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 72 28 Disambiguation of English retronyms: 60 40 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 62 38 Disambiguation of 'video that has been produced by filming': 82 18
  2. (often used attributively, by extension, proscribed) Photorealistic CGI; computer animation closely imitating real life. Tags: attributive, broadly, often, proscribed, uncountable
    Sense id: en-live_action-en-noun-T6U9EA-D
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: live actor, live actress, stop-action

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