as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
every Thanksgiving, our family watches videos of past holiday gatherings
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Recent Examples of video
Michael Saponara, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Surveillance video shows the cold-blooded attack and a female bystander running in fear as the killer nonchalantly walks off before taking a meandering path uptown through Central Park.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
The request went viral and Beckham received video birthday messages from firefighters nationwide as well as invitations to their fire stations, said the family.
—David Chiu, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Explore Saweetie See latest videos, charts and news Saweetie shined as part of DJ Cassidy’s Pass The Mic Live!
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Surveillance video shows the cold-blooded attack and a female bystander running in fear as the killer nonchalantly walks off before taking a meandering path uptown through Central Park.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
The video quality is decent at up to 2K, and the live feed is fast to load.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
The request went viral and Beckham received video birthday messages from firefighters nationwide as well as invitations to their fire stations, said the family.
—David Chiu, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for video
Noun
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When the film showed in New York in 2006 at Lincoln Center, the theater played it off a videotape; in 2017, MoMA screened it from a file.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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The team viewed the videotape after practice and learned that the kick was indeed good.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
The Athletic,
16 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Conservatively estimated at 75,000 images but likely somewhere closer to 80,000, Harris’s prodigious output—pictures taken for the paper supplemented by his private studio work and general photographic curiosity—beautifully and poetically paints a picture of Black life in mid-20th-century America.—
Robert Alan Grand,
ARTnews.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The British composer Cyril Scott sent a condolence card with a brooding photographic portrait attached.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Windows in two basement conference rooms were covered with brown paper and blue painter’s tape, concealing their occupants.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2025
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Blandino said the officials will look at tape, just as coaches from both teams have done leading up to Sunday’s game.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Wally Hall,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Going into the weekend, Hard Rock Bet released a graphic showing that most of Tampa Bay favored the Kansas City Chiefs — who lost to the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday, 40-22.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Rather, entropy reflects the diversity of the pictorial information.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Aug. 2021
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The horrific, lethal, split-second impact comes in frame 313, seven rows up from the bottom and 16 frames to the right, where a burst of vertical light interrupts the horizontal flow of the terrible pictorial narrative.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
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“Video.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/video. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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