posterize

vt.[摄]多色调分色印(相片)

发音

UK /ˈpəʊstəɹaɪz/
US /ˈpoʊstəˌɹaɪz/

词形变化

posterized posterizes 三单 posterizes posterizing posterizing 现在分词 posterized 过去式 posterized 过去分词

别名

posterise

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in (a photograph or other image), changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.

    及物 艺术
  2. 2.

    To score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them; also (by extension, sports, slang), to score a goal, a point, etc., in some other sport against (one or more opposing players) in a spectacular manner.

    加拿大 美国 俚语 及物 体育 游戏
  3. 3.

    To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in a photograph or other image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.

    不及物 艺术

词源

From poster + -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting something which is done or made). Sense 1.1 (“to reduce the number of colours”) refers to the original use of the process to produce posters. Sense 1.2 (“to score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them”) refers to the action being so spectacular as to warrant a photograph of it being printed on a poster.

来源：wiktionary