montage

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together…

   A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.

   • Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage
2. 2

   The art or process of doing this.

   • Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage
3. 3

   A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of…

   A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.

   • THE MYTH: Training montages are inspiring, harmless fun. At some point in any sports movie, the grossly unqualified underdog will start training to the sound of some inspirational rock song.
   • Unfortunately, nothing much happens in the rest of the episode either. It gets to the point where a montage is devoted to establishing Sam's monotony at Oldtown.
   • The day after that, I was still in pain, so I cycled. The day after that, the pain was manageable, so I ran again because I love to run. This was my training montage all the way up to the paratriathlon.
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   1. 4

      To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

      • The two background photographs shown in Fig. 2 were selected from the office files of Blakeslee-Lane Studios and then montaged together by copying onto a negative.
      • Active in the field of environmental art since the 1960s, Nils-Udo builds structures, elaborates on the landscape in a scale that fits, montaging natural materials on site.

The neighborhood

• neighborassemblage
• neighborcollage