to subtitle
- verb
- /ˈsʌbˌtaɪtəl/
- Tough Guise, subtitled Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity, is a good jumping-off point.
- subtitled foreign films
- subtitled a book
And they did not subtitle the languages in English.
- And they did not subtitle the languages in English.
- But even even like we watched a couple of videos on the way here and you do this you you subtitle.
- And that's for subtitling, so that when they translate all those subtitles, all those cues, they know about where it's supposed to hit in the movie when they're creating it.
Examples
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His latest book, Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding, is subtitled Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions.
Academic text (2015) -
She goes for the subtitled stuff, like Japanese films.
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The words are subtitled on the screen and I still can't keep up.
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The three volumes of his major work are subtitled "A Study in Communal Psychology."
Academic text (1990) -
Black Elk Speaks is subtitled "Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux."
Academic text (1997) -
Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins subtitled his Poetry 180 anthology "A Return to Poetry."
Academic text (2006) -
The filmmakers decided to subtitle the movie in multiple languages to reach a wider audience.
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They always subtitle foreign films to help viewers understand the dialogue.
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In order to make the documentary accessible to everyone, they will subtitle it in English.
Synonyms
To add subtitles permanently to a video's image so viewers cannot turn them off
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Etymology
Subtitle as a verb comes from sub- 'under' and title, so to subtitle a film is to put those 'titles under' the picture. That is why to subtitle a movie means to add the written dialogue at the bottom of the screen so people can read it.