单词 | skycam |
释义 | > as lemmasskycam skycam n. (also with capital initial) [ < sky n.1 + cam- (in camera n.)] (a) (a name for) a helicopter with a mounted camera used to broadcast (live) aerial footage of news events; (b) an aerial camera system in which a computer-controlled video camera is suspended above an area (esp. a stadium or arena) by cables which allow it to be manoeuvred into various positions by means of a motorized drive unit (now the usual sense).In sense (b) a proprietary name in the United States. ΚΠ 1979 B. Carter in Newsweek 10 Dec. 130/1 News choppers..with warring names like Sky-10, Skycam 4 and Chopper 11. 1984 Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) 9 Feb. 6 c/5 The new technical developments this year include..the use of a new ‘Skycam’ camera that may produce better overhead shots than we are accustomed to seeing. 1992 L.A. Weekly 8 May 38/3 Abruptly the skycams flitted east, where something else was up. 1997 Chicago Tribune 5 May iii. 6/1 Jury's still out, but I'm leaning toward a guilty verdict against NBC's ‘sky-cam’ as an intrusion on good TV. It makes NBA games look as though they're being played on a tossing ship's deck. 2011 E. Zilberg Space of Detention i. 56 A panoramic view of the geographic path of the riots is being fed unedited by Skycam 5 Live, Telecopter 4, and Newscopter 7. 2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 May (Sports section) 7 A great deal has changed since the Williamses first arrived at Roland Garros... Back then, there were no skycams zipping along overhead. < as lemmas |
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