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If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.
Roger Deakins

Meaning of "cutting room" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CUTTING ROOM

cutting room  [ˈkʌtɪŋ rʊm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUTTING ROOM

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Cutting room is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CUTTING ROOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cutting room floor

The term cutting room floor is used in the film industry as a figure of speech referring to unused footage not included in the finished film. In fact offcuts of film are retained in a special cutting room bin and numbered during the editing process in case they are required later. The phrase 'bin ends' is an alternative term. Although the omission of filmed material happens to some extent for every actor ever filmed, many famous actors' entire appearance in a particular project have ended up on the 'cutting room floor' at one stage or another throughout their careers, including Charlie Chaplin, Eric Stoltz's entire performance as Marty McFly in Back to the Future, and Johnny Depp's performance in Platoon. Other examples are Kevin Costner, John Lithgow, and Phyllis Diller. The actors still get paid for the performance and since the advent of the DVD, their performances may often be resurrected via extended director's cuts, or as extras on the deleted scenes portions included on many DVD releases.

Definition of cutting room in the English dictionary

The definition of cutting room in the dictionary is a place in a film studio where a film is cut and edited.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUTTING ROOM


backroom
ˈbækrʊm
clubroom
ˈklʌbrʊm
Erzurum
ˈɛəzʊrʊm
headroom
ˈhɛdˌrʊm
locker-room
ˈlɒkə rʊm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUTTING ROOM

cuttage
cutter
cutties
cutting
cutting board
cutting compound
cutting edge
cutting grass
cutting horse
cutting-edge
cutting-out scissors
cuttingly
cuttle
cuttlebone
cuttlefish
cutty
cutty grass
Cutty Sark
cutty stool

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUTTING ROOM

bathroom
breakfast room
chat room
control room
dining room
double room
dressing room
elephant in the room
emergency room
family room
guest room
hotel room
living room
locker room
powder room
press room
shower room
single room
sitting room
tea room
utility room

Synonyms and antonyms of cutting room in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cutting room» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUTTING ROOM

Find out the translation of cutting room to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cutting room from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cutting room» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

裁床
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sala de despiece
570 millions of speakers

English

cutting room
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काटने के कमरे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غرفة القطع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Cutting Room
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sala de corte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাটিং রুম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

salle de coupe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bilik pemotongan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schneideraum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カッティング·ルーム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

편집실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nglereni kamar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngăn phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெட்டும் அறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कटिंग खोली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kesim odası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sala taglio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krojowni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Cutting Room
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cameră de tăiere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αίθουσα τεμαχισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sny kamer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

styckningslokalen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cutting room
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cutting room

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUTTING ROOM»

The term «cutting room» is regularly used and occupies the 84.707 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cutting room

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4 QUOTES WITH «CUTTING ROOM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cutting room.
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Hart Bochner
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
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Roger Deakins
If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.
3
Harold Ramis
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
4
David Zucker
I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUTTING ROOM»

Discover the use of cutting room in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cutting room and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cutting Room
The chilling new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little Things
Jilliane Hoffman, 2012
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The Cutting Room
The Cutting Room has won the Crime Writers Association award for debut crime novels, the John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2002.
Louise Welsh, 1999
3
Cutting Room
Cutting rooms as luck would have it have academic sincerity. Sarah Pinder was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and lives in Toronto, Ontario. This is her first collection.
Sarah Pinder, 2012
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The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
"The book makes use of the false document technique: It pretends to be the true story of a 38 year-old Scotsman called Cameron McCabe who writes about a crucial period of his own life during which several people close to him are murdered"- ...
Cameron McCabe, Ernst Bornemann, 2005
5
The Cutting Room Floor
"When seventeen-year-old Riley Frost swears off romance and starts investigating a murder, she confides in her best friend, budding filmmaker Desmond Brandt, who may not have Riley's best interests at heart"--
Dawn Klehr, 2013
6
The Walking Dead Cutting-Room Floor HC
Offers a behind-the-scenes look at Robert Kirkman's original, hand-written plot lines for the early issues of The Walking Dead, sharing with fans what plot lines were left on the cutting-room floor and providing a look at how the series ...
‎2015
7
The Cutting Room: An Avram Cohen Mystery
"The hero is one Avram Cohen. The book is Crimes of the City. This is a thriller in the grand fashion. You will not put it down for an instant." Readers agreed.
Robert Rosenberg, 1993
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Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the ...
Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work.
Aubrey Malone, 2011
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The Face on the Cutting Room Floor: The Story of Movie and ...
An examination of the American motion picture industry's efforts to meet pressure group and government demands is illustrated with stills from popular films
Murray Schumach, 1974
10
The Cutting Room
But the experience becomes an unnerving one for Lucinda who finds Thomas's growing obsession with the story behind his film worrying.
Mary Watson, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUTTING ROOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cutting room is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The UFC Cutting Room Floor: Hatsu Hioki and long goodbyes
Zane Simon goes in depth on the most recent UFC roster cuts, just who the fighters were, and whether or not we might expect them back soon. «Bloody Elbow, Jul 15»
2
Inside Amy Schumer: Three Buttholes
... with the wealth of solid footage that wound up on the cutting room floor, but not at all insistent that one of these sketches got the shaft. «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
3
An Interview With Woody Allen
... I pick out some record albums from a vast collection I have in my cutting room, and we put down some music next to the picture, what we think ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
4
Lectra unveils new version of marker-making solution
The new release expands the scope of its automated marker-making capability, producing better results and bigger savings in the cutting room. «Fibre2fashion.com, Jul 15»
5
TV News Roundup: Jay Pharoah, Cornelius Smith Jr, Janine …
This is Pharoah's first hour-long comedy special from The Cutting Room in New York City, which weaves in his most popular celebrity ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
6
GONG SHOW LIVE Coming to Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
... led to the move to the brand new Cutting Room where it opened on Thursday, November 1, 2012 to more critically acclaimed sold-out shows ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
7
EdiTed: Univision's Deceptively Edited Ted Cruz Interview
... would be left on the cutting room floor during its Sunday rebroadcast on Univision's Al Punto. It didn't take me long to find out that I was right. «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
8
Actor finds his voice in a career spent talking
... documentary “The Heart of the Game,” but after the film was picked up for distribution, Hoyt's narration wound up on the cutting room floor. «Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, Jul 15»
9
Film Review: 'Touch of Evil'
This was how Welles had always intended Touch of Evil to be, had Universal not booted the filmmaker out of the cutting room. Murch worked from the late ... «CineVue, Jul 15»
10
Lectra releases DiaminoFashion V6R2
This new release expands the scope of its automated marker-making capability, producing better results and bigger savings in the cutting room. «GlobeNewswire, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cutting room [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cutting-room>. May 2024 ».
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