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

“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.

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

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Skobin said he wondered whether the assistant city attorney went “back and examined the videotaped and all the other evidence.”

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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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Related Words

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