subtitle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to supply a movie with subtitles

   We subtitle movies so that people with bad hearing can enjoy them too.

2. 2
   noun

   Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.

   Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.

3. 3
   noun

   secondary or explanatory title

4. 4
   noun

   translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program

5. 5
   noun

   A heading below or after a title.

6. 6
   verb

   To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.

Etymology

From sub- + title.