cut inとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the verb phrase cut in.

名詞

cut-in (複数形 cut-ins)

1. (film) A section of film inserted into another sequence.
   • 1916, Carl Charlton, How to Write Photoplays (page 23)

     Inasmuch as leaders and cut-ins use up film a foot to a word, they should be resorted to only when absolutely necessary. For the producer has sufficient expense in his company and plant, without adding to it in film for cut-ins and leaders.

2. (video games, by extension) A visual sequence focusing on a character's face or body while they perform a special move.
3. The situation where the performer of a musical work receives royalties for each performance, despite not having composed it.
   • 2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein (page 138)

     "My collaborators are having their convention in Cleveland this week," was the rueful joke among real songwriters who were seeing their royalties diluted by cut-ins.

   • 1994, Kerry Segrave, Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991 (page 21)

     One group was understandably upset by all the royalty cut-ins — the songwriters.

アナグラム

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