different between installation vs montage

English

Etymology

From Middle French installation, from Medieval Latin installatioMorphologically install +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nst??le???n]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

installation (countable and uncountable, plural installations)

1. An act of installing.
2. Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
3. A work of installation art.
4. A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• installation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

installer +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.ta.la.sj??/

Noun

installation f (plural installations)

1. installation

Further reading

• “installation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French montage (“assembly, set-up”), from monter (“to mount; to put up”) + -age (“suffix forming a noun meaning ‘action or result of something’”) (from Latin -?ticum (“suffix forming a noun indicating a state of being resulting from an action”)). Monter is derived from Vulgar Latin *mont?re, the present active infinitive of *monto (“to climb, mount, go up”), from m?ns, montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?n?t???/, /?m?nt???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?nt??/
• Hyphenation: mont?age

Noun

montage (countable and uncountable, plural montages)

1. (countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. [from early 20th c.]
2. (uncountable) The art or process of doing this.

   Synonym: (sound recording, cinematography) editing

Derived terms

• montaged (adjective)
• montaging (noun)
• photomontage

Translations

See also

• assemblage
• collage

Verb

montage (third-person singular simple present montages, present participle montaging, simple past and past participle montaged)

1. (transitive) To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

Translations

Further reading

• montage (filmmaking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• montage (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• montage (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Matengo, geomant, magneto, magneto-, megaton

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French montage, from monter (“to mount”)

Noun

montage c (singular definite montagen, plural indefinite montager)

1. montage

Declension

References

• “montage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French montage, from monter (“to mount”) (from mont (“mount(ain)”), from Latin mons (“mountain”) +? -age.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mon?ta?ge

Noun

montage f (plural montages, diminutive montagetje n)

1. An assembly
2. A montage of images, especially cinema editing

Related terms

• monteren
• monteur m
• montuur

French

Etymology

From monter (“to mount”) (from mont (“mount(ain)”), from Latin mons (“mountain”) +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.ta?/

Noun

montage m (plural montages)

1. assembly, set-up
2. (film, television) editing

Derived terms

• ligne de montage

Related terms

• monteur m
• monture

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ???????
• ? Chinese: ???
• ? English: montage
• ? Japanese: ??????
• ? Polish: monta?
• ? Russian: ?????? (montaž)
  • ? Kazakh: ?????? (montaj)
• ? Turkish: montaj
  • ? Northern Kurdish: montaj

Further reading

• “montage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).