footage
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
Noun 2 meanings
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
“The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.”
A measurement in feet.
Etymology
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.
FOOTAGE at a glance
FOOTAGE has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (F 4 + O 1 + O 1 + T 1 + A 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,156 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with footage
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- FLOTAGE11
- ROOTAGE8
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