intercut
intercut verb: to intersect.
Verb
intercut (third-person singular simple present intercuts, present participle intercutting, simple past and past participle intercut)
- To intersect.
- To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.
- The film's plot revolves around Robert Adams […] whose older lover […] is in prison. He knows that he cannot send the love letters he wants to, so he writes and keeps them in a journal. Most of the film features voice-overs of his writing intercut with the memories of their life together.1987 August 22, Michael Bronski, “Real To Reel”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 8
Noun
intercut (plural intercuts)
- An alternating sequence of this kind.
- Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street.2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217
Forms of intercut
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | intercuts |
| present participle | intercutting |
| past participle | intercut |
| past | intercut |
| Noun | |
| plural | intercuts |
Origin of intercut
From inter- + cut.
Questions about intercut
- What does intercut mean?
- Intercut means to intersect.
- What part of speech is intercut?
- Intercut can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of intercut?
- The past tense of intercut is intercut.
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