video

[vid-ee-oh]

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noun

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.

adjective

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.

Origin of video

1930–35; < Latin vidē(re) to see + -o as in audio

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Examples from the Web for video

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That video of you doing all the New York impressions went viral.
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Apart from the video, the Saraya Al-Khorasani group has made no official declaration that it is linked to Taghavi.
What an Iranian Funeral Tells Us About the Wars in Iraq|IranWire|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The Italian foreign ministry has declined to comment on the video.
Jihadis Release New Year’s Eve Video of Italian Female Hostages|Jamie Dettmer, Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
Are Police Stealing People’s Property?|Joan Blades, Matt Kibbe|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Video postea multo intolerabiliorem futuram tyrannidem quam unquam antea fuisse.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV|J. H. Merle D'Aubign
Video meliora proboque,But raging lust my fate all strong doth move;The gods themselves cannot be wise and love.
The Works of John Marston|John Marston
With elaborate absent-mindedness, Chester Pelton reached for the switch to turn on the video screen over the pantry door.
Null-ABC|Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
Kelly had been glued to the video monitors since the first of the bulletin.
Code Three|Rick Raphael
The "video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor" expresses too common an experience to be so easily explained away.
On the Ethics of Naturalism|William Ritchie Sorley

British Dictionary definitions for video

video

adjective

relating to or employed in the transmission or reception of a televised image

of, concerned with, or operating at video frequencies

noun plural -os

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

verb videos, videoing or videoed

to record (a television programme, etc) on a video cassette recorder

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Word Origin for video

C20: from Latin vidēre to see, on the model of audio

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Word Origin and History for video

adj., n., pref.

1935, as visual equivalent of audio, from Latin video "I see," first person singular present indicative of videre "to see" (see vision). video game is from 1973.

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video

adjective

noun plural -os

verb videos, videoing or videoed

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