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VOICE-OVER

Specialty Definition: VOICE-OVER

DomainDefinition

Fine Arts

The voice of an unseen commentator heard during a film, television programme, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
 Dialogue or narration by off-stage or off-camera performers or announcers, which accompanies the picture information being projected or televised. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Voice-over

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A voice-over is a narration in a film, usually by a character reflecting back on his or her past, or by a person external to the story who usually has a more complete knowledge of the events in the film than the other characters. Voiceovers are often used in film noir and in news segments, especially in public affairs pieces. In fiction films, directors may add a voice-over late in the production because the plot or a character's motivation isn't clear; for instance Francis Ford Coppola added Capt. Willard's voice-overs to Apocalypse Now to clarify Willard's character.

See also: motion picture terminology; voice actor

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Voice-over."

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Crosswords: VOICE-OVER

Specialty definitions using "VOICE-OVER": master control engineer, MASTER CONTROL OPERATOR. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VOICE-OVER

DomainTitle

Books

  • VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor (reference)

  • The Art of Voice Acting, The Craft and Business of Performing for Voice-Over (reference)

  • Word of Mouth: A Guide to Commercial and Animation Voice-Over Excellence (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: VOICE-OVER

Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: VOICE-OVER

"VOICE-OVER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.77% of the time. "VOICE-OVER" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)80.77%2176,261
Adjective (general or positive)19.23%5157,705
                    Total100.00%26N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: VOICE-OVER

Language Translations for "VOICE-OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kommenterende stemme. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stem buiten beeld. (various references)

   

French

  

voix off, voix hors champ, monologue intérieur. (various references)

   

German

  

Off-Ton, Off-Stimme. (various references)

   

Italian

  

voce fuori campo (voice over). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oice-overvay

   

Russian 

  

голос за кадром. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

voz en off (voice over). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: VOICE-OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: voiceover.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-o-o-r-v-v"

-2 letters: revoice.

-3 letters: corvee, revive, voicer.

-4 letters: cooee, cooer, cover, oorie, reive, verve, vireo, voice.

-5 letters: cere, cero, cire, coir, core, cove, ever, over, rice, rive, rove, veer, vice, vier, vive.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-o-o-r-v-v"
 

+1 letter: voiceovers.

 

+5 letters: overprotective.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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