Montage

//mɒnˈtɑːʒ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. countable

    "Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage"

  2. 2
    a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image wordnet
  3. 3
    The art or process of doing this. uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage"

  4. 4
    A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene. countable

    "THE MYTH: Training montages are inspiring, harmless fun. At some point in any sports movie, the grossly unqualified underdog will start training to the sound of some inspirational rock song."

Verb
  1. 1
    To combine into, or depict as, a montage. transitive

    "The Keartons and our staff had out-montaged [Vsevolod] Pudovkin. The result viewed to-day may be somewhat out of date—though I'm not sure—but of one thing I am certain—that it is as fine an example as I know of a maximum effect of cinematic movement achieved by patience in editing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).

Etymology 2

, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).

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