单词 | subtitle |
释义 | subtitlen. 1. a. (a) A title given to a subsection of a larger work; a subheading. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title > sub-title subhead1744 subtitle1814 subtitle1815 1814 T. F. Dibdin Bibliotheca Spenceriana II. 380 The following sub-title (wanting in the preceding edition,) is prefixed to the first section of the work: Strabonis Geographi Europe primus Commentarius. 1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 9 Errata P. 613, col. 1, between lines 5 and 6, insert, as a sub-title, ‘distribution of the army’. 1893 Columbia Law Times Feb. 136 He dictates a general heading for the subject and a sub-title for each branch of it. 1918 M. V. O' Shea et al. World Bk. II. 1035/2 The Cabinet of the Dominion of Canada is treated in full in the article Canada, under the subtitle Dominion Government. 2006 H. Jenkins Fans, Bloggers, & Gamers 178 As someone who writes journalistically, I often have no say over the titles and subtitles assigned to my work. (b) Law (chiefly U.S.). A subtitled section of a larger work. Frequently with following letter or numeral. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > chapter or section capitleeOE chapter?c1225 pacea1325 chapitle1340 passa1400 capitalc1460 titlec1460 spacea1500 section1576 head1610 tract1662 passus1765 screed1829 subtitle1891 1891 J. P. Bishop New Comm. on Marriage, Divorce, & Separation I. xliii. 568 It is within the principles stated in the last sub-title, that he may recover his damages against any one who unlawfully entices her away. 1897 Laws State Utah, 2nd Regular Session 106 Under the provisions and subject to the conditions of the act of Congress.., and under a section of the sub-title of said act.., a lien is hereby created. 1945 Michigan Law Rev. 44 181 Partnerships are dealt with in subtitle A, chapter 1, subchapter C, supplement F of the Internal Revenue Code. 1971 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 57 379/2 The administrative scheme of Subtitle F shall be applied to all taxes imposed by Subtitle A. 2006 M. D. Herbert in E. D. Lodgen et al. Contractor's State License Bonds Desk Ref. 115 The contractor furnishes any materials and performs any services within the coverage of subtitle 18 of Article 13 of the Baltimore City Code. b. A supplementary or explanatory title given in addition to the main title of a book, work of art, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title > sub-title subhead1744 subtitle1814 subtitle1815 1815 European Mag. & London Rev. Jan. 47/2 The sub-title of ‘The Two Cupids’, Mr. J. thinks, will be fully understood by classical readers. 1833 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 105/2 The author of Alberic, Consul of Rome; or, the School for Reformers, keeps three asses in stall for the gratification of his equestrian turn. The sub-title, The School for Reformers, was intended for [etc.]. 1858 G. L. Duyckinck Life G. Herbert xiv. 162 The sub-title of The Temple—‘Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations’—forms, perhaps, the best description of..its contents. 1912 E. Pound Let. 12 Aug. (1971) 39 If you want to drag in the word Imagisme you can use a subtitle ‘an anthology devoted to Imagisme, vers libre and modern movements in verse’ or something of that sort. 1956 Billboard 24 Nov. 28 The subtitle of this LP is ‘Good Rock and Roll for Dancing’. 1985 H. Carpenter Secret Gardens iii. 82 ‘Good Words for the Young’ might not be a bad subtitle for the whole book. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 19 June viii. 14/3 The subtitle of this newsletter says it all: ‘the newsletter about fun places to go and cool things to do with your dog’. 2. Printing. = half-title n. at half adj. Compounds 2 (sometimes more fully subtitle page). Also: a repetition of the chief words of the full title of a book at the top of the first page of text. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title > short-title or half-title bastard title1756 short-title1869 text-title1881 subtitle1883 1883 Newcastle Courant 14 Dec. 6/6 One of the most attractive [Christmas books] is a poetical and pictorial version of the story of ‘Perseus, the Gorgon Slayer’... The sub-title page is a chaste bit of decoration conventionally treated. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printer's Vocab. 134 Sub-title, the bastard or half-title placed before the general title of a work. 1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc. (new ed.) I. p. xviii The running title and the sub-titles. 1917 Collector (N.Y.) Jan. 30/1 Vol. IX of the first edition in the original boards and signature of Sterne on the sub-title. 2008 R. P. Kahn Milk Teeth 225 I take a copy of Bearing Meaning out of my bookbag and write on the subtitle page. 3. A title given beneath a photograph, illustration, etc.; a caption. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > heading head1560 lemma1616 heading1754 capitular1846 capitulary1846 caption1848 subtitle1907 1907 Outing Mag. May 148/1 In one of its illustrated folders some years ago the Great Northern railroad printed a photograph of this noble mountain, with the sub-title of ‘Hough's Mountain’. 1922 Engin. News-Record 19 Oct. 666/2 One of the illustrations bears this sub-title: ‘A scene on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, the largest electrical railway system in the world, running practically across America’. 1995 Slavonic & East European Rev. 73 480 The subtitle under its photograph, in a book written by a German traveller from the middle of the 1930s, has it as ‘Old Roman bridge over the Drina’. 2004 B. E. Fitz Silko 254 Leiby includes a photograph with the subtitle ‘Troop F and Capt. Walter G. Marmon, 1882’. 4. Film, Television, etc. a. = intertitle n. at inter- prefix Additions. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen subtitle1909 title1909 title card1921 caption1923 intertitle1939 1909 Moving Picture World 27 Feb. 235/1 If the audience is not given time to read the sub-titles or if they are indistinct..the spectators lose the thread. 1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made vi. 144 The reading-matter on a film—subtitles, as they are commonly known—..necessarily interferes with the action of the play. 1975 G. Howell In Vogue 5/1 The subtitles to films brought American slang to Britain... ‘Beatrix Esmond goes nix on the love-stuff.’ 2008 C. Gourley Flappers & New Amer. Woman 64 (caption) Anita Loos..went from writing subtitles for silent movies to scripting screenplays for such classics as Red-Headed Woman..and San Francisco. b. A caption appearing across the lower portion of a cinema screen, or of the frame of a television programme, video recording, etc., and typically supplying a translation of the dialogue, or a version of it for the benefit of the deaf or hard of hearing; (also) a similar caption provided for the audience of an opera or other stage performance (cf. surtitle n.). Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > sub-title caption1924 subtitle1931 1930 Helena (Montana) Independent 21 Dec. 7/1 They were actually remakes, or with superimposed or inserted, explanatory titles.] 1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures xi. 285 Sub-titles, with their orchestral accompaniment, are made by two cameras. 1932 Porto Rico (U.S. Bureau Foreign & Domestic Commerce) 59 There are still frequent exhibitions of English-dialogue films with superimposed subtitles in Spanish, and a few without the subtitles. 1975 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 27 May a8/1 Movies with subtitles for the deaf will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Fridays..at the Catholic Youth Organization Hall,..Glendale. 1977 Nevada State Jrnl. 9 Oct. 3 a/3 Audience members probably will be given libretto translation booklets, and he may even go so far as to flash subtitles above the stage. 1989 Which? Sept. 450/1 Several recently introduced teletext videos can record subtitles. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 110/5 Italian films (often sans subtitles) are projected twice a week. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). subtitlev. 1. transitive. To give a particular subtitle to (something). Frequently in passive with complement. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [verb (transitive)] > title or heading entitlec1381 titlea1387 intitule1490 intitulate1575 overwrite1605 rubricate1793 subtitle1830 epigraph1860 1830 ‘J. Bee’ in S. Foote Dramatic Wks. II. 79 Of the department sub-titled ‘Monthly Catalogue’, it was said that Griffiths and his wife were in the habit of hitting them [sc. articles] off at the breakfast table. 1875 Publishers' Weekly 4 Dec. 892/1 The work is subtitled as ‘A Collection of Facts and Opinions Descriptive of the Blockbooks of the Fifteenth Century’. 1907 L. Gilman Stories Symphonic Music 50 The ‘Melpomene’, composed in 1887,..was subtitled..‘Overture to an Imaginary Tragedy’. 1998 H. Rosen Speaking from Memory ii. 47 Makarenko sub-titled his book A Poem of Education. 2. transitive. Cinematography, Television, etc. To provide (a film, programme, etc.) with subtitles. ΚΠ 1950 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture & Television Engin. Nov. 536 Several operations are necessary in order to subtitle pictures. 1978 G. Gould Let. 26 June in Sel. Lett. (1992) 236 The conversation is in English and the films were sub-titled for their appearance in France. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Feb. 14/2 In an era when Hollywood dialogue is sometimes deliberately simplified in order to be easily subtitled. Derivatives ˈsubtitler n. a person who writes or creates subtitles. ΚΠ 1920 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Herald 27 Dec. 3/2 The scenario was prepared by J. Grubb Alexander and Madge Tyrone, two of filmdom's cleverest subtitlers. 1968 Punch 31 Jan. 154/3 The sub-titler..can sum up a passage of flashy philosophy in one profound-seeming sentence. 2004 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 3/7 Subtitlers will from now on question the inclusion of any strong language in pre-water-shed programmes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814v.1830 |
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