Kilo Lingo

/ˈfʊtɪdʒ/

Line drawing of footage
Coloured illustration of footage
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Translation

Film or video of an event, especially video shown on the news.

Word origin

From foot, the unit of length, plus -age; early cinema film was measured and sold by the foot.

Origin
English
Root
foot

Examples

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"Footage" is the video that was filmed of the storm.

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The footage is what the camera recorded.

1950.

"Footage" has no plural; you say some footage, not footages.

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This word is part of lesson 52.