foley
foley Lexical Profile
foley Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The art and technique of reproducing everyday ambient and physical sound effects—such as footsteps, rustling clothing, and creaking doors—in a recording studio during post-production to synchronize with and enhance the audio of a film, television show, or video game.
"The sound designer spent three days in the studio recording foley to make the crunch of footsteps on the snowy path sound convincing."
In medicine, a flexible indwelling urinary catheter (full name: Foley catheter) passed through the urethra and held in place within the bladder by a small inflatable balloon.
"Following the abdominal surgery, the nurse monitored the patient's fluid output through the foley."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the 1950s as an eponymous tribute to Jack Donovan Foley (1891–1967), an American sound-effects pioneer at Universal Studios who developed techniques for performing and recording synchronized everyday sounds live to projected film.