footages
- 1Plural of footage. Used mainly of measured lengths or areas (square footages); recorded film or video is usually uncountable footage.
The listing compares the square footages of all five homes on the street.
Square footages in the old survey were often rounded to the nearest hundred.
Note
A plural that pulls against its noun. In the film-and-tape meaning, footage usually behaves as a mass noun (hours of footage, some new footage), so the plural stands out by treating separate recordings as countable items. The measurement meaning, an amount in feet, is countable as well as uncountable, and there the plural is unremarkable. For recordings, saying clips or pieces of footage is the safer choice.
footages is a form of footage
footage, noun: A quantity of film or video that has been shot to record an event or scene. Full entry
- Forms
- footagefootages plural
- Spelling
- footage → footages: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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