letterbox

Meaning of letterbox

noun
  1. a box attached to an outside wall, or a slot in the door of a building, into which mail is delivered.
    she wrote a hasty reply and posted it through his letter box
  2. a format for presenting widescreen films on a standard television screen, in which the image is displayed in approximately its original proportions across the middle of the screen, leaving horizontal black bands above and below.
    this uncut version is presented in letterbox format
verb
  1. record (a widescreen film) on to video in letterbox format.
    the film has been released in a digitally remastered and letterboxed edition

Information about letterbox

  • The plural form of letterbox is: letterboxes.
  • Languages ​​in which letterbox is used:

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Hyphenation of letterbox

let-ter-box

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • letterbox is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with letterbox

gearbox, naphthacenecarbox, tarbox, butterbox, chatterbox, pepperbox, thunderbox, tinderbox, tuckerbox, underbox

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