gifs
SayGIFS/ɡɪfs/
- 1Plural of gif.
The article was illustrated with several looping gifs of the experiment.
Reaction gifs spread across social media faster than any caption could.
Note
A plural that has outgrown its file format. Strictly, gifs are bitmap images in one particular format, still or animated, limited to 256 colors per frame. In broad Internet use the word covers any short, silent, usually looping clip, even one actually saved as MP4 or WebM. Lowercase gif is simply another way of writing GIF, and it takes the regular -s plural.
gifs is a form of GIF
GIF, noun: Any short video clip without sound, usually one that loops, even when the file is not actually in GIF format. Full entry
- Forms
- GIFgifs plural, plural
- Spelling
- GIF → gifs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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