subtitle
Text below title
A subtitle is secondary text appearing below a title, adding explanation or context: The book's subtitle clarified its scope.
Subtitles also refer to the text displayed at the bottom of a screen translating or transcribing dialogue in film or television: I watch foreign films with subtitles.
To subtitle is to provide either kind.
Text accompanying an image
- closed-captioningOnscreen transcription of audio
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- translationConverting between languages
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
sync · timing · track · hardcoded · embedded · encoding · streaming · DVD
Adapting for specific markets
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
- bilingualSpeaking two languages
- multilingualKnowing multiple languages
- transcriptionWritten version of speech
transliteration · adaptation · fansub · simulcast · sync · timing · interpreter · vernacular
Having partial or total deafness
- deafUnable to hear
- closed-captioningOnscreen transcription of audio
- SDHMultiplexing standard for carriers
- assistiveProviding help or aid
inclusion · accommodation · transcription · audio-description · readability · ADA · compliance · inclusive
Directional course traveled
- chapterDivision of a book
- sectionDistinct divided part
- taglineMemorable branding phrase
- explanatoryServing to clarify meaning
clarifying · descriptive · colon · cover · spine · catalog · publication
caption
Text accompanying an image
- closed-captioningOnscreen transcription of audio
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- translationConverting between languages
dubbing · sync · timing · track · hardcoded · embedded · encoding · streaming · DVD · Blu-ray
localization
Adapting for specific markets
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
- bilingualSpeaking two languages
- multilingualKnowing multiple languages
transcription · transliteration · adaptation · fansub · simulcast · sync · timing · interpreter · vernacular · idiomatic
hearing-impaired
Having partial or total deafness
- deafUnable to hear
- closed-captioningOnscreen transcription of audio
- SDHMultiplexing standard for carriers
assistive · inclusion · accommodation · transcription · audio-description · readability · ADA · compliance · inclusive · screen-reader
heading
Directional course traveled
explanatory · clarifying · descriptive · colon · cover · spine · catalog · publication
- televisionTV, television, broadcast, TV shows, TV series
- videovideo, AVI, clip, footage, film
- print mediaheadline, magazine, articles, news, byline
- "Sub-" wordssubway, submarine, subtract, subject, suburb
- book partspage, pages, cover, index, chapter
- captionsclosed captions, open captions, photo caption, closed caption, live captions
subtitletitle
Formal honorific or name
main title · headline · heading · masthead · header
- subtitled filmsCinema requiring reading along
- film subtitlesOn-screen dialogue translation
- subtitle tracksText displaying spoken dialogue