special effect
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- noun
- /ˈspɛʃəl ɪˈfɛkt/
- Specialized
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efecto especial
- Your special effects are terrible.
- create special effects
- add special effects
- music and special effects
So we are sending Lizzie through special effects makeup to try and trick Link.
- So we are sending Lizzie through special effects makeup to try and trick Link.
- Strobe light, smoke and other special effects may be used.
- So they get a bunch of scientists, They get special effects artists.
- And it got by on special effects because it had no new ideas, right?
- Meanwhile, Owen jump into the box and Valeria brought out the special effects.
- You still need it like a whole studio of people who knew how to do special effects or VFX.
- And I also got a degree in makeup, so I can do special effects, TV and film, all that jazz.
- So you can do some special effects like the portrait mode that the iPhone has where you can blur the background.
- He relied on the state-of-the-art techniques in special effects, well informed by what was then the current state-of-the-art of spacesuit design.
- Big special effects makeup show and a lot of fun.
Examples
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You make your living creating and photographing special effects.
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Strobe light, smoke and other special effects may be used.
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So you got a little bit of special effects and, you know, cost went up.
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And it got by on special effects because it had no new ideas, right?
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You wanna see these special effects I made for Dog Cop 5?
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I find too often in modern films that the special effects are the special effects.
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The special effects were spectacular!
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The show combines live actors, special effects, and a 3-D movie.
Academic text (2006) -
Many examples of image corrections and special effects will be presented.
Academic text (1997) -
The special effect of the exploding building left the audience in awe during the movie.
Synonyms
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4.8
An impression made to influence people or create a certain look
A sound, light, or smoke trick used in a play to make scenes more dramatic
How Dramatic
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'special' (unusual/not ordinary) + 'effect' (an impression or result): a notable/unusual effect, which in context refers to artificially created visuals or sounds. This adj+noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'efecto especial', French 'effet spécial', Japanese '特殊効果') and should be inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Special effect comes from old theater and early films where people used tricks to make things look 'not real' on stage or screen. The word special meant made for the show and effect meant the result for the audience, so today the phrase means an image or sound 'made artificially' in films, TV, or theater.