logline

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɒɡ.laɪn/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very short summary of a script or screenplay.
    — Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]
  2. The line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.
    — Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture of the elevation of the pole in that place where he is, though he sec neither Sunne nor Starres.

词形变化

loglines plural logge-line alternative log lyne alternative logg line alternative logg-line alternative loggline alternative log line alternative log-line alternative

词汇关系

相关词
heave the log plotline

词源

First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log + line.
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