dope sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope sheets
form: dopesheet
form: dope-sheet
Senses: examples: text: "He went to Alaska and made a fortune. Then he squandered it, drinking, fighting, gambling, and frittering it away on women. . . ."
"Hold up! Your dope sheet is way to the bad. . . . Who told you all that?"
"Never mind. I have proof."
ref: 1904, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Pardners:
text: Then she started filling me in on background information that you could get from any press agent's dope sheet.
ref: 1970, James Mechem, A Diary of Women, page 106:
text: Bradley O'Leary, a devout Republican, and Victor Kamber, a staunch Democrat, are publishers of the Washington-based political dope sheet called the O'Leary/Kamber Report.
ref: 1986 December 30, Wayne King, Warren Weaver Jr., “Washington Talk”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Aug 2011:
text: Karoulis's face twitched with a combination of fear and hope, wondering what news his Homicide Detective had for him. . . . "Name was Sten Doppleman. A known pusher, and a punk . . . . According to his dope sheet, he's a vicious son of a bitch."
ref: 1988, Terence M. Green, Barking Dogs, →ISBN, pages 69–70:
glosses: A summary, ordinarily in the form of a document, containing important facts and background information concerning a person, activity, or other subject matter.
examples: text: The Bruins, seeking their third straight NCAA title, are picked on The Times dope sheet with 59 points.
ref: 1973 June 7, Harely Tinkham, “Trojan Stock Soars as Bruins Come Up Hobbling for NCAA”, in Los Angeles Times, page P1:
text: Also, he probably attends harness races, for he once accidentally left a dope sheet behind.
ref: 2002, Walt McConville, Trabler Travel Tales, →ISBN, page 83:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A publication, updated very frequently and used by people who make horse racing wagers, which summarizes information about the horses running in specific races; a publication which provides background information and/or predictions used by people wagering on any sort of competition.
examples: text: The "field number" of the film is indexed into a reference file, along with the cameraman's "dope" sheet.
ref: 1967 August 4, “Stored at Quantico: Fifty Years of Filmed History”, in Free Lance-Star, USA, retrieved 07 Aug 2011, page 5:
text: Moreover, both the official cameramen and the newsreel cameramen were required to write a detailed ‘dope sheet’ describing each shot they had taken.
ref: 1975, Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, volumes 12-13, page 16:
text: The dope sheet for the photographs, which may have been written some time later reads: "Accidentally shot by an Englishman while hunting in Africa."
ref: 2010, Neil Parsons, Alexander McCall Smith, Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A summary of the content and technical information for a set of photographs.
examples: text: From a workflow point of view, the access to these tools seems to have been guided by artists with experience with exposure sheets (a dope sheet for lip synch is included) and traditional animation.
ref: 2002 May 1, S. D. Katz, “Animation: Master 2002”, in digitalcontentproducer.com, retrieved 07 Aug 2011:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A set of detailed instructions which the designer of an animated film provides to the photographers and editors.
Synonyms: topics: information
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
pets
word: dope book
topics: information
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
pets
word: racing form
topics: information
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
pets
word: scratch sheet
topics: information
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
pets
word: tip sheet
sense: animation instructions
word: exposure sheet