intercut
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.
noun
An alternating sequence of this kind.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English cut English intercut From inter- + cut.