subtitle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
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subtitle (plural subtitles)
- (authorship) A heading below or after a title.
- (cinematography, television) Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.
- Coordinate term: intertitle
- 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
- Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.
Usage notes
- In film and video, subtitles usually translate foreign-language dialogue, while captions transcribe or describe all significant dialogue and sound for viewers who cannot hear it.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
heading below a title
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textual versions of the dialog in films
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Verb
subtitle (third-person singular simple present subtitles, present participle subtitling, simple past and past participle subtitled)
Translations
to create subtitles
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Further reading
- subtitles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- subtitle (titling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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