still
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5.2
- noun
- /stɪl/
- Jargon
:
foto fija
- But what's actually happening is we're just seeing a quick succession of still images.
- movie stills
- photographic stills
- video stills
Is it a grainy, you know, still from a surveillance tape?
- Is it a grainy, you know, still from a surveillance tape?
- It's a, it's a, it's a still, Yeah, it's still of him in the back.
- And it was because people were posting beautiful stills from commercials, music videos, whatever it was.
- When you see this stills from it, you think it is shot today.
Examples
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Mainly, they were just a collection of black and white stills from the old movies.
Fiction book (1995) -
The pictures looked like publicity stills from Gone with the Wind.
Fiction book (2000) -
Everybody, you know, on Instagram now on a still photo, people put music.
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Get stills of the others.
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I hope that you do take some stills of the performance and post them here!
Blog text (8) -
You think you could get me some stills of her modeling work?
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Later, the stills were used in presentations in schools, colleges, and public libraries.
Academic text (1999) -
More often, the fan magazines relied on the studios to supply the portraits and stills that filled their pages.
Academic text (2017) -
I saw a number of your stills in an old gallery brochure... and thought the work was incredibly atmospheric, and I'd be very interested in showing your work.
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The photographer captured stunning stills from the movie that were used in promotional posters.
Synonyms
627
2.5
A single photograph or one continuous film scene
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
1
8.1
A way of hunting where the hunter moves very quietly or waits in one spot to surprise animals
- Specialized
A machine that runs without stopping to separate alcohol from fermented grain or fruit to make spirits like whisky
Surface Forms
Etymology
Still for a photograph comes from the idea of 'not moving', so a film still is a single motionless image taken from a movie, the same root as still meaning 'quiet' or 'motionless'.