film clip
- noun
- /fɪlm klɪp/
- The director played a short film clip to show the audience the dramatic scene.
- film clip shows
- see film clips
- watch film clips
Let's let's see a film clip from the from the movie.
- Let's let's see a film clip from the from the movie.
- Now I'm going to start off with Doctor Gawande and he's going to set up a film clip.
Examples
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"Round Two," the voiceover said, introducing another film clip.
Fiction book (1999) -
We had just finished watching some film clips from an unreleased documentary made while Dad worked on that last film.
Fiction book (1998) -
Is that you in the film clip?
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Bob appears in a film clip, speaking before the National Press Club.
Fiction book (1993) -
You see film clips on the news all the time.
Fiction book (1997) -
This was just an amazing panel and so moving and all of your film clips were just incredible.
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We'll have film clips and photographs.
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The Visitor Center begins with a short film clip of General Eisenhower discussing his decision to land on June 6th.
Academic text (2009) -
John Lassiter wanted us to look at a film clip of two different eye blinks on flick.
Blog text (10) -
Wolfe showed more film clips of the Tsering he had known, of Tsering and Chime's wedding, which he had attended.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
Recorded video used in news or films
A short piece of video or sound taken from a longer recording
Vertical videos under a minute made for quick viewing
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a short segment from a motion picture' is directly derivable from combining 'film' (movie) with 'clip' (a short recorded excerpt); the compound follows standard English noun-noun composition. This transparent compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Film clip comes from cutting a small clip out of a longer film strip. Because people would literally cut and show just that short piece, film clip now means a 'short segment' of a movie used in news, shows, or presentations.