sound effect

English

Noun

sound effect (plural sound effects)

1. An artificially created or enhanced sound, used to accompany the action of a dramatic production, such as a film, play or video game.
2. A caption in a comic strip representing a sound.
   • 2021, Nate Piekos, The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering, page 184:

     It's also becoming more commonplace for artists to add some of their own sound effects while they're drawing the art. If they haven't drawn all of the sound effects, you may decide to mimic the style of their existing sound effects with digital brushes for a more homogenous look.

Descendants

• → Japanese: サウンドエフェクト (saundo efekuto)

Translations

artificially created or enhanced sound in films, plays or video games

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音效 (zh) (yīnxiào)

• Czech: zvukový efekt m
• Danish: lydeffekt
• Dutch: geluidseffect (nl)
• Esperanto: sonefekto
• Finnish: ääniefekti, äänitehoste
• French: bruitage (fr) m, effet sonore m
• German: Soundeffekt m
• Hungarian: hangeffektus (hu), hanghatás (hu)
• Japanese: 効果音 (ja) (こうかおん, kōkaon)
• Maori: orotaunaki
• Norwegian: lydeffekt
• Portuguese: efeito sonoro m
• Romanian: efect sonor (ro) n
• Russian: звуково́й эффе́кт m (zvukovój effékt)
• Spanish: efecto sonoro m, efecto de sonido m
• Swahili: athari ya sauti
• Swedish: ljudeffekt c
• Ukrainian: звукови́й ефе́кт m (zvukovýj efékt)

See also

• foley