Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The audio portion of a film or video recording.
  • noun The music that accompanies a movie.
  • noun A commercial recording of such music.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.
  • noun The sound (especially the music) component of a movie.
  • noun A recording of such music for sale.
  • verb To provide, or to act as the sound or music component of a film

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film

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  • "DIALOGUE is basically a phone number and a phone central that stores one or more soundtracks. When dialing the service number, the user is welcomed by a voice and subsequently told to repeat a set of words and sentences one by one. This will make people in close proximity believe that he/she is having a real conversation."

    - Sebastian Campion, 'Dialogue'.

    November 22, 2008