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still frame

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

“These questions seek to humanize the men, but they still frame them as terrorists,” Pat Mullen, a Toronto film critic, wrote in Point of View magazine.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022

Users who love them can post them; users who don’t simply see a still frame.

From The Verge • Jul. 13, 2022

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

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