An officer shouts me to halt a running thief, a film director does me to a moving scene, and winter temperatures do me to every lake and stream. What word am I?
Freeze
Wordplay on 'Freeze!' (police command), a 'freeze frame' in video/film, and water turning into ice in sub-zero winter cold.
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