Word.ws English Dictionary

medium shot

medium shot noun: a shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.

Noun

medium shot (plural medium shots)

  1. A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.
    • The film then cuts to a medium shot, not of Marguerite but of Faust looking in the girl's direction with the devil posed somewhat artistically behind him, and the two begin to sing.2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 81

medium shot meaning in Tamil

medium shot in Tamil

இடைநிலை வீச்சு

Forms of medium shot

pluralmedium shots

Questions about medium shot

What does medium shot mean?
Medium shot means a shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.
What is medium shot in Tamil?
Medium shot in Tamil is இடைநிலை வீச்சு. See Medium shot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is medium shot?
Medium shot is a noun.
What is the plural of medium shot?
The plural of medium shot is medium shots.

Words near medium shot in the dictionary

  1. medium pace
  2. medium pacer
  3. medium pacers
  4. medium rare
  5. medium scale integration
  6. medium shot
  7. medium shots
  8. medium spiny neuron
  9. medium spiny neurons
  10. medium term
  11. medium terms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: medium shot (page history and authors); medium shot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “medium shot.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/medium_shot. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.