posterize (English, verb)
expansion: posterize (third-person singular simple present posterizes, present participle posterizing, simple past and past participle posterized)
expansion: (American and Oxford British spelling)
Senses:
topics: arts
graphic-design
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in (a photograph or other image), changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
tags: transitive
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them; also (by extension, sports, slang), to score a goal, a point, etc., in some other sport against (one or more opposing players) in a spectacular manner.
tags: Canada
US
slang
transitive
topics: arts
graphic-design
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in a photograph or other image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: posterizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: posterizing
tags: participle
present
form: posterized
tags: participle
past
form: posterized
tags: past
form: posterise
tags: alternative