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still frame

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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

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

From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2022

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 Edward Fairfax Taylor

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