video
[vid-ee-oh]
- a program, movie, or other visual media product featuring moving images, with or without audio, that is recorded and saved digitally or on videocassette: Let's stay at home and watch a video.She used her phone to record a video of her baby's first steps.I spent all morning watching videos of cats online.
- Television.
- the elements of television, as in a program or script, pertaining to the transmission or reception of the image (distinguished from audio).
- the video part of a television broadcast.
- Informal. videotape.
- Informal. television: She is a star of stage and video.
- music video.
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- of or relating to the electronic apparatus for producing the television picture: video amplifier.
- of or relating to television, especially the visual elements.
- of or relating to videocassettes, VCRs, music videos, etc.: a video shop.
- pertaining to or employed in the transmission or reception of television pictures.
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Origin of video
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Contemporary Examples
Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
That video of you doing all the New York impressions went viral.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s GreatnessMarlow Stern
January 7, 2015
Apart from the video, the Saraya Al-Khorasani group has made no official declaration that it is linked to Taghavi.
The Italian foreign ministry has declined to comment on the video.
Jihadis Release New Year’s Eve Video of Italian Female HostagesJamie Dettmer, Barbie Latza Nadeau
January 2, 2015
“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
Historical Examples
Despite the agony, his gaze did not waver from the video set across the room.
No Hiding PlaceRichard R. Smith
Now Neon is better at real soccer than he is at video game soccer.
FreeChildrenStories.com CollectionDaniel Errico
The new generation is more proficient in video games than in orthography.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
This book is also available in video format and as a computer game.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
I keyed for a video check of the interior of the lift as it started back up.
GreylornJohn Keith Laumer
video
- relating to or employed in the transmission or reception of a televised image
- of, concerned with, or operating at video frequencies
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- the visual elements of a television broadcast
- a film recorded on a video cassette
- short for video cassette, video cassette recorder
- US an informal name for television
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- to record (a television programme, etc) on a video cassette recorder
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Word Origin
C20: from Latin vidēre to see, on the model of audio
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Word Origin and History for video
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