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# montage

«montage» in Mova's school dictionary: **In films and TV, a quick series of short clips put…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a montage, montages); verb (montage, montages, montaged, montaging — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In films and TV, a quick series of short clips put together to show time passing or many things happening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#m1)

2) A picture made by putting many photos or pieces together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#m2)

3) The skill of choosing and joining pieces of film or pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in media studies, art (making a photo montage for a project) and everyday talk about films ("the training montage"). In a story, "a montage" tells the reader that lots of time passed quickly. Phrases: "training montage", "photo montage", "a montage of".

### examples

- The film showed a montage of the team training hard all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x1)
- For our end-of-year assembly we made a montage of class photos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x2)
- The artist made a montage from old magazine pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x3)
- A montage of holiday clips played at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x4)
- Every sports film seems to have a training montage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x5)
- The news ended with a montage of the best moments of the Games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x6)
- We learned how editors cut film to build a montage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x7)

### note

Pronounced "MON-tahzh" (from French). Countable: "a montage", "two montages". Similar to "collage" (pictures glued onto paper); a montage is more often photos or film clips.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «montage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.