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View synonyms for freeze frame
freeze frame
or freeze-frame
noun
, Television, Movies.
- 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.
freeze-frame
noun
- 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
verb
- tr to make a freeze-frame of (an image)
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- freeze-frame adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of freeze frame1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
Now, if life were a mid-1990s teen sitcom, there would be a freeze frame.
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Every still life is secretly cinematic, some version of the freeze-frame.
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Photographers snapped the moment, and the freeze frame was lovingly titled “Zombie McCain.”
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