freeze frame

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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.

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Origin of freeze frame

First recorded in 1955–60

OTHER WORDS FROM freeze frame

freeze-frame, adjective

Words nearby freeze frame

freeze-drying, freeze-etch, freeze etching, freeze-fracture, freeze fracturing, freeze frame, freeze one's blood, freezeout, freezer, freezer burn, freeze-up

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How to use freeze frame in a sentence

StatsBomb is reworking its OBV model using broadcast freeze frames to capture off-ball positions.
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The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
Today’s GOP: Still Cool With Racist Pandering?|Michael Tomasky|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The quandary of whether to freeze eggs or not could become irrelevant overnight.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.
In One Corner of Syria, Christmas Spirit Somehow Manages to Survive|Peter Schwartzstein|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.
Why the Left Loves Warren, But Won’t Swoon for Sanders|David Freedlander|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The woman had had two strokes and was generally in a dark frame of mind.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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There was a slight shuddering movement of his whole frame—Bob was dead.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The scarlet calico canopy was again set up over the bed, and the woven cradle, on its red manzanita frame, stood near.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Old Warrender retired to his study in a rather excited frame of mind, excusing himself on the ground of his age.
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William Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

British Dictionary definitions for freeze frame

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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