单词 | playback |
释义 | playbackn. 1. a. The reproduction of a (sonic, visual, etc.) recording, esp. soon after it has been made. Cf. play v. 24c. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > playback playback1929 1929 Photoplay Apr. 110/2 Play-back,..the immediate playing of the sound record after the taking of a scene in order that actors and directors may hear how it all sounds... The play-back is only possible from disc recording,..as in film recording the film must be developed before the sound can be heard. 1934 B.B.C. Year-bk. 419 For immediate play-backs the Blattner system requires a little time to rewind the tape before running off again. 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Feb. 7 A courtroom playback of the broadcasts..brought out that Nazi propaganda was inserted between the GI's messages. 1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 133 A young man's idle dream? It is a playback only mildly exaggerated of a vision of the future. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon ix. 203 We've been looking at your systems data on playback and everything is looking good. 1983 H. Evans Good Times, Bad Times xii. 249 They had grown used to getting on with the job with little guidance from conference and little playback the next day. 1995 First Home Buyer's Guide Winter 11/1 (advt.) Six-disc playback is just one of the conveniences provided by the PD-M602. b. Film. The pre-recording of a musical soundtrack which is subsequently mimed by an actor; an instance of this. Also: a playback singer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [noun] > specific sound techniques Vitaphone1926 Movietone1927 playback1952 optical sound1960 Foley1973 walla1984 1952 R. Spottiswoode Film & its Techniques 351 The technique of prescoring and playback with singer and orchestra. 1962 Times 26 Jan. (Survey of India) p. xiii/2 The well-loved singers of prewar days were displaced by a strange new tribe known as ‘play-backs’. 1990 Opera Now May 48 Filming Elektra in 1981, she refused the soft option of lip-synching to a playback in front of the cameras, and sang the title role over and over again during rehearsals and takes. 2. A device or facility for playing recordings. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment playback1929 1929 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 8 166 The design of a suitable ‘wax’ ‘playback’. 1930 W. B. Pitkin & W. M. Marston Art of Sound Pictures 271 Play-back, a device which repeats the voices, recorded on a wax record. 1945 L. A. G. Strong Othello's Occupation 44 It's a recording unit, with a play-back and ordinary controls for loud-speaker. 1960 Aeroplane 15 July 51 (advt.) Permanent radar records with the AEI radar recorder and playback. 1999 Tape-Disc Business (Nexis) 1 Feb. 32 These players have a playback and a record drive, like an audio or video cassette player. Compounds playback singer n. Film (esp. in Indian cinema) a singer who records songs to be mimed in films by actors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers knackerc1380 jubilist1471 sol-faer1609 serenader1677 comic singer1753 ranter1769 country singer1790 caroler1806 chansonnier1822 troller1824 cantabank1834 triller1873 lion comique1899 chantwell1909 red-hot mama1924 song stylist1931 singer-songwriter1949 playback singer1963 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > actors or characters > [noun] > other actors lens louse1928 stand-in1929 baddie1934 goody1934 narrator1941 voice actor1958 playback singer1963 voice-over1966 voice actress1974 body double1981 1963 E. Barnouw & S. Krishnaswamy Indian Film 164 A Cine Writers Association and a Playback Singers Association had been launched but had ceased activity because of lack of support. 1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 31/4 The best male playback singer trophy. 1991 Smithsonian July 40/1 He would endlessly play bhajans, popular devotional hymns to the greater glory of Rama and Krishna, sung by a popular ‘playback’ singer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1929 |
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