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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English outtaken (“to take out”), equivalent to out- + take.
Noun
outtake (plural outtakes)
- A portion of a recording (a take) that is not included in the final version of a film or a musical album, often because it contains a mistake.
The DVD for that movie has ten minutes' worth of outtakes.
- A complete version of a recording or film that is dropped in favour of another version, reject.
- An opening for outward discharge; a vent.
1895, Electrical Engineer, volume 19, page 449:The boiler is "sectional" and of the water tube type, in which the steam and water drums are arranged transversely to the flow of gases from the furnace to the outtake to chimney.
Coordinate terms
- (portion of a recording that contains a mistake): blooper
Translations
portion of a recording not included in the final version
version dropped in favour of another version
opening for outward discharge
Verb
outtake (third-person singular simple present outtakes, present participle outtaking, simple past outtook, past participle outtaken)
- (transitive) To take out, remove.
- (obsolete) To except.
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:it happed the kynge and launcelot stode in a wyndowe / and sawe syre Tristram ryde and Isoud / Syre sayd Launcelot yonder rydeth the fayrest lady of the world excepte youre quene Dame Gueneuer / who is that said sir Arthur / Sir sayd he / it is quene Isoud that oute taken my lady your quene she is makeles- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2
From Middle English outtake, outtaken, from the past participle of outtaken (“to take out”). See above. Compare earlier Middle English outnime, out-neme (“except, except for”).
Preposition
outtake
- (archaic) except; besides.
this is for everyone outtake my wife
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