Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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verb
To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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verb
To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Topics: audio, electrical-engineering, engineering, entertainment, lifestyle, music, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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History
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Across languages
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