videotape

American  

[vid-ee-oh-teyp] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌteɪp /

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 ).

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verb (used with object)

videotaped, videotaping

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

Other Word Forms

• videotaper noun

Etymology

Origin of videotape

video + tape

Example Sentences

Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Under the First Amendment, anyone in the U.S. has the right to engage in peaceful protest, which can include yelling, using profane language, videotaping officers and following them in a car, legal experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I refuse to have us videotaped throwing someone to the ground while they have a child in their hands,” one ICE agent told a police officer at the scene.

From Salon

“So just like that, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle and it’s on videotape that I’m going to UCLA,” Easley would recall many years later.

From Los Angeles Times

Any of today’s approaches could easily fail, just as Betamax lost out to VHS in the videotape format war decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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