freeze frame
or freeze-frame
an optical effect or technique in which a single frame of film is reprinted in a continuous series, which when shown gives the effect of a still photograph.
a button or other mechanism on a projector, videocassette system, etc., allowing one to stop the projected picture at any point.
Origin of freeze frame
1Other words from freeze frame
- freeze-frame, adjective
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How to use freeze frame in a sentence
Now, if life were a mid-1990s teen sitcom, there would be a freeze frame.
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Photographers snapped the moment, and the freeze frame was lovingly titled “Zombie McCain.”
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British Dictionary definitions for freeze-frame
films television a single frame of a film repeated to give an effect like a still photograph
a single frame of a video recording viewed as a still by stopping the tape
(tr) to make a freeze-frame of (an image)
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