footage

noun

foot·​age ˈfu̇-tij How to pronounce footage (audio)
1
: recorded video material
A camerawoman from Channel 12 shows up to grab some footage for the evening news.Bari Walsh
Video footage posted online shows him daring an audience member to fight …Latifah Muhammad
Ramsay uses security footage from inside and outside of the brownstone to detail Joe's actions.Kyle Turner
The documentary series that presents archival images and film footage in color continues, this week focusing on memorable events from the 1940s.Kristi Turnquist
2
: length or quantity expressed in feet: such as
b
: the total number of running feet of motion-picture film used (as for a scene or subject)
The people of Hiroshima had a fund-raising campaign to purchase footage from films taken by American photographers …. They calculated they could purchase ten feet of footage for one thousand yen …Ruth Ann Keyso and Masahide Ota

Examples of footage in a Sentence

Some disturbing footage of the war was shown on the evening news.
Recent Examples on the Web Although Tractor Supply did not have video footage of the theft, the store next door did. Sydney Page, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 The group, which released a video for the song using footage from its concerts in Macao, sang the song in Mandarin. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024 The nuts-and-bolts campaign efforts of strategizing, raising funds, courting delegates and resisting the push to drop out from fellow Black politicians like the slippery D.C. delegate Walter Fauntroy (André Holland) are quite absorbing, embroidered here and there with archival news footage. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024 Security camera footage shows a cat headed out of the factory on the night before and leaving the trail behind. Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024 The Canadian hockey team shared fun footage of Dion in the locker room. Megan Johnson, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024 The letter noted that Boeing has also been unable to provide security footage of the September 2023 work, which included removing and reinstalling the door plug. Gregory Wallace, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024 Live footage showed a plume of smoke surrounding the fiery wreckage, which was extinguished soon after. TIME, 13 Mar. 2024 Included in that evidence were restraint logs, surveillance footage of abuse and excessive force and infraction records. Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of footage was in 1842

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“Footage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footage. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

footage

noun
foot·​age
ˈfu̇-tij
1
: length measured in feet
2
: scenes or action recorded on film or video

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