What does «fundido» mean in Spanish?
- A cinematographic, digital video and slide editing procedure that consists of making an image appear or disappear slowly, or achieving a gradual transition between one image and another. Also applicable to music. Along with chaining, it is one of the oldest narrative resources of cinema and later of television.
Examples of use in Spanish: "pondré un efecto fundido entre diapositivas para hacer más suave la transición".
- Financially ruined.
Examples of use in Spanish: "no tengo un peso en los bolsillos, estoy fundido".
- Burned, unusable, broken.
Examples of use in Spanish: "bombilla fundida".
"motor fundido".
- Tired, exhausted, dejected.
♦ Used in: Argentina
Examples of use in Spanish: "¡estoy fundido! trabajé todo el día hoy".
- Blended or melted.
Examples of use in Spanish: "queso fundido".
- Spoiled.
♦ Used in: Chile
Examples of use in Spanish: "niño fundido".
- Casting; the effect of melting a metal.
Examples of use in Spanish: "se alcanzó la temperatura de fundido de este metal".
- Technique used in sculpture to work molten metals.
Examples of use in Spanish: "se empleó un fundido de bronce para elaborar esta figurilla".
- (fundido en negro o al negro, fundido de cierre) In cinema, gradual disappearance of the image until the screen becomes completely black.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el fundido en negro es muy usual al final de las películas clásicas".
- (fundido nuclear) Nuclear catastrophe.
- (hierro fundido) The molten iron that comes out of blast furnaces, also called cast iron.
- (acero fundido) This is obtained by burning part of the carbon contained in cast iron in a special apparatus.