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video

SayVID-ee-oh/ˈvɪd.i.oʊ/UK/ˈvɪd.i.əʊ/

Pluralvideos, videmus, videoes

6 meanings of video

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  1. 1
    filmed clipnouncountable or uncountable
    A recording of moving images, with or without sound, such as a music video or a homemade clip uploaded to a website.

    He filmed a quick video and shared it with his followers.

    Viewers can scroll through thousands of short videos in a single sitting.

    UsageYou watch, make or post a video, and it is a video of someone or something.

    Similarclip, vid

  2. 2
    moving imagesnoununcountable
    Moving images recorded, stored or transmitted electronically, considered as a medium, together with the technology used for this, as in calls or cameras.

    Most of the team's meetings now happen on video rather than in person.

    The phone shoots high-quality video even in low light.

    UsageUsed without a: caught on video, shoots video. Before nouns it names the technology: video call, video camera.

    Similarfootage

  3. 3
    recorded movienoundatedcountable or uncountable
    A film or program recorded on videotape or disc for watching at home, or the videocassette itself.

    She borrowed a video from the library to watch over the weekend.

    The store organized its videos by genre along the back wall.

    Similarvideotape, videocassette, movie, film

  4. 4
    noununcountable
    The visual part of a recording, broadcast or signal, as opposed to its sound.

    The audio and video were slightly out of sync throughout the stream.

    Engineers lost the video from the satellite feed but kept the sound running.

    UsageOften paired with audio; common phrases are video feed and video signal.

    Similarpicture

    Oppositeaudio

    Note

    Broadcast and streaming engineers treat picture and sound as separate tracks, and this sense names the picture one. The audio and the video of a feed can drift out of sync or be lost independently, so a technician may report losing video while the sound carries on.

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  1. 5
    verbBritishtransitive
    To record something on video, either by filming it with a camera or by recording a television programme to watch later.

    Local clubs often video their training sessions for later review.

    The parents videoed the recital from the front row.

    UsageThe forms are videos, videoed, videoing: you video a wedding or a match.

    Similarfilm, record, tape, videotape

    Note

    Videotape is the older, longer verb for the same act, though most American speakers now simply say film or record.

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  2. 6
    noundatedcountable or uncountable
    Television as a medium, or a particular television show or movie.

    UsageFor television as a medium, use video without a, as in moved from radio to video.

    Similartelevision, TV

    Note

    The sense that shows the word's making most plainly: video was built from Latin videō, "I see," with the -o borrowed from audio. Audio is what is heard, video what is seen. Here the word covers the whole medium of moving pictures.

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Origin

Formed from the root "vide-" of Latin "videō" ("I see") plus "-o," created by analogy with "audio." The Latin word traces back through Proto-Italic to the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-.

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