soundtrack

[sound-trak]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
the sound recorded on a motion-picture film; audio portion of a film.
the music or dialogue from a film available on a commercial recording.

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noun

the recorded sound accompaniment to a film Compare commentary
a narrow strip along the side of a spool of film, which carries the sound accompaniment

verb

(tr) to provide a continuous accompaniment of sounds, esp music

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Word History and Origins

Origin of soundtrack¹

First recorded in 1925–30; sound ¹ + track

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As part of The Staple Singers, she helped provide the soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the long Black Freedom Struggle.

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Traffic from nearby Highway 4 produced an insistent, thrumming soundtrack.

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Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys, has died.

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Baldoni's team also briefly subpoenaed Swift, whose song "My Tears Ricochet" appears on the "It Ends With Us" soundtrack, though the subpoena was withdrawn earlier this month.

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He grew up in a Bay Area household where the soundtrack tended to be a mix of jazz and opera, salsa and show tunes.

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sound system sound truck

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