a slow-motion scene

сущ.; кино

A a.

1 lento; tardo; pigro; indolente; (fig.) tardo di mente, ottuso: a slow journey, un viaggio lento; to walk at a slow pace, camminare a lenti passi; a slow fire, fuoco lento; He's slow of comprehension, è tardo di comprendonio; slow of speech, lento nel parlare

2 (pred.) indietro; in ritardo: My watch is two minutes slow, il mio orologio è in ritardo (o è indietro) di due minuti

3 monotono; noioso: a slow afternoon [party], un pomeriggio [un party] noioso

4 ( del terreno, ecc.) pesante; poco scorrevole: a slow track, una pista pesante; a slow billiard table, un biliardo poco scorrevole

5 (econ.) fiacco: Business is slow, gli affari sono fiacchi

B avv.

(fam.) lentamente; piano; adagio: Please, read slow, leggi adagio, per favore!

● a slow answer, una risposta che tarda a venire □ ( baseball) slow ball, palla tenuta lenta ( dal lanciatore); palla in ritardo □ slow bowler, lanciatore lento □ slow cooker, pentola per cottura lenta ( con termostato elettrico o intercapedine per acqua) □ slow-combustion stove, parigina ( vecchio tipo di stufa) □ (autom.) slow corner, curva da prendere piano □ (mus.) slow foxtrot, slow ( ballo) □ slow handclap, battimano scandito (in segno di impazienza, disapprovazione o incitamento) □ (autom.) slow lane, corsia per veicoli lenti □ a slow match, una miccia a lenta combustione □ (comm.) a slow month, un mese morto ( per gli affari) □ (cinem., TV) slow motion, rallentamento delle immagini: slow-motion replay, replay alla moviola; ralenti (franc.); ripresa al rallentatore; (cinem.) a slow-motion scene, una scena al rallentatore; a slow-motion shot, una ripresa al rallentatore □ (cinem., TV) slow-motion viewer, moviola □ slow-moving, lento: slow-moving traffic, traffico lento □ (market.) slow-moving items, prodotti a lenta rotazione □ to be slow off the mark (o on the uptake), essere duro di comprendonio; essere lento a capire ( una barzelletta, ecc.) □ (autom.) slow running, marcia lenta; minimo □ slow-spoken, che parla lentamente □ a slow starter, ( sport) chi parte piano, chi è lento alla partenza; (fig.) uno che va piano all'inizio ( di un lavoro, ecc.) □ to be slow to anger [enthusiasm], non arrabbiarsi [entusiasmarsi] tanto facilmente □ ( di un lavoro, una partita, ecc.) to be slow to start (o to take off), stentare a decollare (fig.) □ (ferr.) slow train, treno regionale; ( un tempo) treno accelerato □ a slow village, un paese in cui la vita procede a ritmo lento □ (fisiol.) slow-wave sleep, sonno a onde lente □ slow-witted, tardo di mente; duro di comprendonio □ slow-wittedness, durezza di comprendonio; ottusità □ to go slow, andar piano; (fig.) essere (o andare) cauto; (ind.) lavorare a rilento, rallentare il lavoro ( per protesta): (fig.) Go slow!, vacci piano! □ ( cartello stradale) Go slow!, rallentare! □ (naut.) Slow speed ahead!, avanti adagio □ (prov.) Slow but (o and) sure, chi va piano va sano e va lontano □ (prov.) Slow and steady wins the race, chi la dura la vince.

A v. i.

1 rallentare; ridurre, diminuire la velocità

2 ridurre il ritmo di lavoro; rallentare l'attività; prendersela calma

3 ( del traffico, dell'attività economica, ecc.) rallentare; ridursi

B v. t.

1 ridurre la velocità di ( un veicolo, ecc.)

2 (fig.) rallentare, frenare: (econ.) The railway strike will slow down production, lo sciopero delle ferrovie rallenterà la produzione; (fin.) Investors are slowing the market, gli investitori stanno frenando il mercato.

ralenti, e [ʀalɑ̃ti]

past participle of  ralentir

1. adjective

2. masculine noun

(Cinema) slow motion

• régler le ralenti (Automobiles) to adjust the idle

► au ralenti [filmer, projeter] in slow motion

• tourner au ralenti to idle

• vivre au ralenti to live at a slower pace

• l'usine tourne au ralenti production at the factory has slowed down

• ça tourne au ralenti chez lui ! (pejorative) he's a bit slow! (inf)

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ralentie ʀalɑ̃ti participe passé ralentir

participe passé adjectif [geste, rythme, croissance] slower

nom masculin Cinéma slow motion

au ralenti locution adverbiale

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TV, CINÉMA (= scène, extrait) slow motion

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ralenti, ralentie

A pp ⇒ ralentir.

B pp adj [geste, rythme, croissance] slower.

C nm

1 Cin slow motion; scène/chute (filmée) au ralenti scene/fall (filmed) in slow motion; tourner au ralenti to shoot [sth] in slow motion;

2 ( pas à pleine capacité) fonctionner au ralenti [machine, entreprise] to be just ticking over; [personne] to be running at half-speed; avancer au ralenti [automobiliste, circulation] to crawl along; vivre au ralenti to live at a slow pace;

3 Aut idle; tourner au ralenti [moteur] to be ticking over GB, to idle; moteur qui tient bien le ralenti engine that ticks over GB ou idles well.

( féminin ralentie) [ralɑ̃ti] adjectif

mener une vie ralentie to live quietly

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nom masculin

1. CINÉMA slow motion

2. AUTOMOBILE & MÉCANIQUE idling speed

régler le ralenti to adjust the idling speed

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au ralenti locution adverbiale

1. CINÉMA

2. [à vitesse réduite]

tourner au ralenti [moteur] to idle

a. [pour protester] they're on a go-slow (UK) ou a slowdown (US)

b. [par nécessité] they're working at a slower pace

slow motion.

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► nombre masculino

1 CINEMATOGRAFÍA slow motion

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al ralentí CINEMATOGRAFÍA in slow motion 2 (motor) ticking over

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1) (Cine) slow motion

2) (Aut)

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a) (Auto)

b) (Cin) slow motion

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= idle speed.

Ex. However, if you try to brake below this speed without depressing the clutch, the engine will stall because it's being forced to carry a load while operating below idle speed.

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* mantener al ralentí = idle.

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a) (Auto)

b) (Cin) slow motion

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1 ( Auto):

dejar el coche/el motor al ralentí to leave the car/the engine idling o ( BrE) ticking over

hay que ajustar/subir el ralentí the timing needs adjusting

2 ( Cin) slow motion

una escena rodada al ralentí a scene shot in slow motion

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ralentí nm

1. Aut

2. Cine

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al ralentí AUTO idling; FOT in slow motion

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ralentí nm

dejar al ralentí : to leave (a motor) idling

SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology, Photography, film and optics

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At the age of 19 Marey went to Paris to study medicine, becoming particularly interested in the problems of the circulation of the blood. In an early communication to the Académie des Sciences he described a much improved device for recording the pulse, the sphygmograph, in which the beats were recorded on a smoked plate. Most of his subsequent work was concerned with methods of recording movement: to study the movement of the horse, he used pneumatic sensors on each hoof to record traces on a smoked drum; this device became known as the Marey recording tambour. His attempts to study the wing movements of a bird in flight in the same way met with limited success since the recording system interfered with free movement. Reading in 1878 of Muybridge's work in America using sequence photography to study animal movement, Marey considered the use of photography himself. In 1882 he developed an idea first used by the astronomer Janssen: a camera in which a series of exposures could be made on a circular photographic plate. Marey's "photographic gun" was rifle shaped and could expose twelve pictures in approximately one second on a circular plate. With this device he was able to study wing movements of birds in free flight. The camera was limited in that it could record only a small number of images, and in the summer of 1882 he developed a new camera, when the French government gave him a grant to set up a physiological research station on land provided by the Parisian authorities near the Porte d'Auteuil. The new design used a fixed plate, on which a series of images were recorded through a rotating shutter. Looking rather like the results provided by a modern stroboscope flash device, the images were partially superimposed if the subject was slow moving, or separated if it was fast. His human subjects were dressed all in white and moved against a black background. An alternative was to dress the subject in black, with highly reflective strips and points along limbs and at joints, to produce a graphic record of the relationships of the parts of the body during action. A one-second-sweep timing clock was included in the scene to enable the precise interval between exposures to be assessed. The fixed-plate cameras were used with considerable success, but the number of individual records on each plate was still limited. With the appearance of Eastman's Kodak roll-film camera in France in September 1888, Marey designed a new camera to use the long rolls of paper film. He described the new apparatus to the Académie des Sciences on 8 October 1888, and three weeks later showed a band of images taken with it at the rate of 20 per second. This camera and its subsequent improvements were the first true cinematographic cameras. The arrival of Eastman's celluloid film late in 1889 made Marey's camera even more practical, and for over a decade the Physiological Research Station made hundreds of sequence studies of animals and humans in motion, at rates of up to 100 pictures per second. Marey pioneered the scientific study of movement using film cameras, introducing techniques of time-lapse, frame-by-frame and slow-motion analysis, macro-and micro-cinematography, superimposed timing clocks, studies of airflow using smoke streams, and other methods still in use in the 1990s. Appointed Professor of Natural History at the Collège de France in 1870, he headed the Institut Marey founded in 1898 to continue these studies. After Marey's death in 1904, the research continued under the direction of his associate Lucien Bull, who developed many new techniques, notably ultra-high-speed cinematography.

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See also: Demenÿ, Georges

BC / MG

1 [trager worden/maken] slow down; 〈 trein〉 be delayed

2 [uitstellen] delay

♦voorbeelden:

1   een vertraagde filmopname • a slow-motion film scene

     de snelheid vertraagde • the pace slackened

     na de rust vertraagde de thuisclub het spel • in the second half the home team used delaying tactics

     in zijn ijver vertragen • lose one's enthusiasm

2   het vertrek werd een dag vertraagd • the departure was delayed by a day

a slow-motion film scene

action [aksjɔ̃]

   a. ( = acte) action

• faire une bonne action to do a good deed

• commettre une mauvaise action to do something wrong

• action d'éclat brilliant feat

• action de grâce(s) thanksgiving

• action revendicative [d'ouvriers] industrial action uncount ; [d'étudiants] protest uncount

• action ! (Cinema) action!

• l'action se passe en Grèce the action takes place in Greece

• passer à l'action to take action

• mettre en action [+ mécanisme] to set going ; [+ plan] to put into action

   b. ( = effet) [d'éléments naturels, médicament] effect

• ce médicament est sans action this medicine has no effect

• sous l'action du gel under the action of frost

   c. ( = politique, mesures) policies

• l'action gouvernementale the government's policies

• l'action économique et sociale economic and social policy

• l'action humanitaire humanitarian aid

   d. (Law) action

• action en diffamation libel action

   e. (Sport) il a été blessé au cours de cette action he was injured during that bit of play

• revoyons l'action let's have an action replay

   f. (Finance) share

• action nominative/au porteur registered/bearer share

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1) ( fait d'agir) action

2) ( façon d'agir) action

3) ( effet) effect

4) ( acte) action, act

5) ( initiative) initiative; Armée, Droit action

6) ( histoire) action

7) ( en finance) share

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1) (= acte individuel) action

2) (au singulier)

3) [roman, film] action

4) (effet d'une force naturelle) action, effect

5) DROIT action

6) COMMERCE (= part dans une société) share

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action nf

1 ( fait d'agir) action; il serait temps de passer à l'action gén it's time to act; ( combattre) it's time for action; entrer en action Mil to go into action; l'entrée en action de l'armée the army's involvement in the conflict; un homme/une femme d'action a man/a woman of action; avoir toute liberté d'action to have complete freedom of action; être en action [personne] to be in action; en action [machine, mécanisme] in operation; mettre qch en action to put sth into operation [mesure, plan]; un sportif en (pleine) action a sportsman in action; volonté d'action will to act;

2 ( façon d'agir) action; programme or plan d'action plan of action; moyens d'action courses of action; avoir une unité d'action to have a common plan of action; champ d'action field of action;

3 ( effet) effect; l'action du temps the effects of time; avoir une action bénéfique/néfaste/immunologique to have a positive/a negative/an immunizing effect; sous l'action de qch under the effect of sth; l'action de qch sur qch/qn the effect of sth on sth/sb; l'action de qn sur qch/qn sb's influence on sth/sb;

4 ( acte) action, act; une action irresponsable/stupide an irresponsible/a stupid action; des actions criminelles/individuelles/racistes criminal/individual/racist acts; une action d'éclat a remarkable feat; faire une action d'éclat to distinguish oneself; une bonne/mauvaise action a good/bad deed; j'ai fait ma bonne action de la journée I've done my good deed for the day;

5 ( initiative) initiative; Mil, Jur action; une action des Nations unies a UN initiative; actions culturelles culturel initiatives; mener des actions humanitaires to carry out a programme^GB of humanitarian aid; dégager des ressources pour des actions sociales to free money for social programmes^GB; entreprendre une action militaire offensive to take offensive action; intenter une action en justice à qn to take legal action against sb; intenter une action en diffamation to bring a libel action GB ou suit;

6 ( histoire) action; l'action se situe à Venise the action takes place in Venice; un film d'action an action film; un roman d'action an adventure novel; j'aime quand il y a de l'action I like a bit of action;

7 Fin share; actions et obligations securities; une société par actions a joint stock company; action A/B A/B share; action gratuite free share; action nominative registered share; action ordinaire ordinary share GB, common share US; action préférentielle preference share GB, preferred share US.

action de grâce(s) thanksgiving.

[aksjɔ̃] nom féminin

1. [acte] action, act

2. [activité] action (substantif non comptable)

a. [généralement] to take action

b. MILITAIRE to go into action

3. [intervention] action

4. [effet] action, effect

5. FINANCE share

6. DROIT action, lawsuit

7. ADMINISTRATION

8. MILITAIRE & PHYSIQUE action

9. GRAMMAIRE action

10. (Suisse) [vente promotionnelle] sale, special offer

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d'action locution adjectivale

1. [mouvementé - roman] action-packed

2. [qui aime agir]

3. POLITIQUE & SOCIOLOGIE

en action locution adverbiale & locution adjectivale

a. [pompiers, police] to go into action

b. [loi, règlement] to become effective, to take effect

la sirène s'est/a été mise en action the alarm went off/was set off

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sous l'action de locution prépositionnelle

due to, because of