still frame

British  

noun

1. continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal

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Example Sentences

Formally, a diorama is a single scene in a narrative or story, like one still frame in a movie or one panel in a graphic novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

Memories of that era, and the defining vote that ended it in 1994, still frame much of everyday South Africa.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

There’s not much you can do in the way of editing files — you can trim them or grab a still frame — so they’ll need to be exported for anything more than that.

From The Verge • Jul. 17, 2021

Far from being a glimpse of a secret meeting, however, the image is actually a still frame taken from a documentary about the family made by my colleague Adam Ellick.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2012

Their hands still frame A thunderbolt unfinished, such as Jove Rains thickly from his armouries above, Tipt with twelve barbs and never known to fail.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax