videotape

[vid-ee-oh-teyp]

noun

1. magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (audiotape ).

verb (used with object)

videotaped, videotaping 

1. to record (programs, etc.) on videotape.

Other Word Forms

• videotaper noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of videotape¹

video + tape

Example Sentences

It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.

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The secretly shared videotape was so satisfying that people literally died watching it, so frozen in their bliss that they forgot about their own human needs.

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The judges ruled that “compelling and coherent evidence,” including a videotape in which Abd-Al-Rahman says he is Ali Kushayb, showed that he was the militia leader in question.

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“He made performance ratings before there were published Beyer figures. He videotaped gate workouts in the mid-1980s. His overall knowledge of pace, pedigree and European form is unsurpassed. As a public handicapper, he’s the GOAT.”

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“I said something like, ‘They videotaped us while we’re in the showers, touching us while they pat us down,’” he recounted.

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Related Words

• copy 
• document 
• file 
• list 
• log 
• mark 
• post 
• register 
• report