rough cut
5
4.8
- noun
- /rʌf kʌt/
- Specialized
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corte preliminar
- We showed him the first rough cut.
- see a rough cut
- rough cut of a film
- showed the rough cut
Blogs are just for today and and the rough cut screening day.
- Blogs are just for today and and the rough cut screening day.
- I had a rough cut, showed the rough cut.
- So we had three different rough cuts, I think so assembly, three rough cuts, couple fine cuts.
- I'm so today is the first screening of your rough cuts.
- But when it came to post, like that's a much more calculated thing and like, I would send him rough cuts and everyone has been through this.
- So I have been like contracting editors to basically get like a really solid rough cut for me.
- So this is what we need to do because right now what I'm watching is not a third as good as what your rough cut was.
- No, no, this thing, it was almost like it was interesting because I had just finished the the rough cut of the movie.
- OK, So basically your rough cuts are going to be so good that you're not going to have to reshoot anything.
Examples
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Breitbart had seen a rough cut of the film before his death and had been "blown away," Marcus said, adding that he wanted to preserve that experience for the audience.
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Here's what the rough cut looked like, using placeholder numbers for experiments, test subjects, etc.
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Once we got the near final rough cut from Australia.
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It's our best chance for finding the rough cut.
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I used to not share my rough cuts with friends.
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Both The Franchise and Hard Knocks allow their subjects to watch rough cuts of each episode.
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I saw the rough cut he screened at a local art house last summer, and it wasn't bad.
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In an extra feature included in the new Princess Bride Blu-ray, he talks about what it was like to watch the first rough cut of that film with his wife and the cast.
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Skeptical at first, Fiedel became a believer in Cameron's wild vision upon seeing the rough cut.
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Yesterday, Mr. McCarthy was holed up in an editing studio putting together a rough cut.
Antonyms
How Finished
- Specialized
9
4.2
- Specialized
5
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'first edited version' is directly derivable from combining 'rough' (preliminary, not final) with 'cut' (an edit or removed section); together they transparently signal a preliminary edit. This adjective+noun composition and the film-related sense of 'cut' are common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Rough cut comes from film editing: a cut is an edit and a rough one is made quickly, like strips of film taped together with uneven edges. So a rough cut means the 'first edited version' of a movie, not yet polished for the final release.