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FOOTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footage mean? 

FOOTAGE (noun)
  The noun FOOTAGE has 2 senses:

1. film that has been shotplay

2. a rate of charging by the linear foot of work doneplay

  Familiarity information: FOOTAGE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOOTAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Film that has been shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he edited the news footage

Hypernyms ("footage" is a kind of...):

film; photographic film (photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A rate of charging by the linear foot of work done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("footage" is a kind of...):

charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)


 Context examples 


Scientists recently restored Voyager's footage of Triton and used it to construct the best global color map of that strange moon yet — further whetting appetites for a Pluto close-up.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

In a footage, an Octopus named Heidi changes skin-color, from light to dark, while sleeping upside-down in a tank making scientists believe that they can dream.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Like an old film, Voyager's historic footage of Triton has been "restored" and used to construct the best-ever global color map of that strange moon.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

The team subsequently deployed a camera, providing footage of the name plaque on the side of the vessel with the name "Grayback" still legible.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission to Ryugu is among the most bold and ambitious space missions that humans have ever launched and now, for the first time, we as a species have captured video footage on the surface of an asteroid.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"If the shoe fits, wear it." (English proverb)

"One rain does not make a crop." (Native American proverb, Creole)

"Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will both come out." (Arabic proverb)

"Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window." (Corsican proverb)



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