"second unit" meaning in English

See second unit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: second units [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} second unit (plural second units)
  1. (cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit. Wikipedia link: second unit Categories (topical): Cinematography
    Sense id: en-second_unit-en-noun-bq~bQczI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: broadcasting, cinematography, film, media, television

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for second unit meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "second units",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "second unit (plural second units)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cinematography",
          "orig": "en:Cinematography",
          "parents": [
            "Film",
            "Entertainment",
            "Mass media",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit."
      ],
      "id": "en-second_unit-en-noun-bq~bQczI",
      "links": [
        [
          "cinematography",
          "cinematography"
        ],
        [
          "footage",
          "footage"
        ],
        [
          "motion picture",
          "motion picture"
        ],
        [
          "first unit",
          "first unit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "broadcasting",
        "cinematography",
        "film",
        "media",
        "television"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "second unit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "second unit"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "second units",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "second unit (plural second units)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Cinematography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cinematography",
          "cinematography"
        ],
        [
          "footage",
          "footage"
        ],
        [
          "motion picture",
          "motion picture"
        ],
        [
          "first unit",
          "first unit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "broadcasting",
        "cinematography",
        "film",
        "media",
        "television"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "second unit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "second unit"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.