videoadj.n.
/ˈvɪdɪəʊ/, U.S. /ˈvɪdioʊ/ A. adj. Usually in attributive use.
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a. Of, relating to, or concerned with the images displayed on a television or other electronic device, or the electrical signal, channel, etc., conveying such images.Recorded earliest in video frequency n., video signal n. at Compounds 2.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [adjective]
video1934
video1935
1934 Proc. IRE 22 1242 Video frequency (picture frequency)... The picture carrier should include the video signal, synchronizing impulses, etc.
1944 Jrnl. Television Soc. 4 69/2 Trap circuits are commonly used..to keep the sound carrier out of the video channel.
1955 G. M. Glasford Fund. Television Engin. xv. 480 A useful device for generating a video test signal is the monoscope.
1983 Computerworld (Nexis) 28 Feb. 56 The units contain an on-board 10-MHz analog/digital converter for ‘grabbing’ fields of video data.
1998 G. R. Capelo & R. C. Brenner VCR Troubleshooting & Repair (ed. 3) vii. 213/2 Notice the horizontal sync pulse that rises to the video reference black level.
2003 Opera News Oct. 50/1 Component cables send the video information to your television in pure component parts: red, green, blue.
2012 Vanity Fair Mar. 368/1 Mid Morning Matters..is simulcast on the Web, with a video feed allowing viewers to watch the headphoned host chat live with his guests.
b. Chiefly U.S. Of or relating to television as a broadcasting medium. Now rare or merged in sense A. 2.In quot. 1959: of or relating to a television set.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [adjective] > broadcasting by television
telecasting1933
video1935
society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [adjective]
video1934
video1935
1935 Discovery Sept. 277/2 They are providing ever better products and service to enable the listening public to get more enjoyment from the ‘audio’ programmes..and will be ready to cater for those who wish..to see such ‘video’ items as may become available.
1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing 194 An American video commentator.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 157 A hippopotamus of a television-radio-and-phonograph cabinet with the blind monstrous snout of the video tube.
1967 Boston Herald 1 Apr. 1/1 News commentator Chet Huntley claimed Friday he had the support of his video partner, David Brinkley, and all but three of 40 NBC newscasters in his bid.
2. Of, relating to, or concerned with the recording, reproduction, or broadcasting of moving images on magnetic tape or digitally.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [adjective]
videographic1949
video1952
home video1970
Laservision1981
1952 Rocky Mount (N. Carolina) Evening Telegram 6 Nov. 8 b/2 Essentially a video tape recording would resemble an ordinary home-recorded tape of Junior playing the piano.
1976 Broadcast Dec. 20/1 In a video world he has still a film-stock contribution to make to the overall impression of the whole.
1989 Chicago Tribune 10 Nov. vii. 77/4 The video release is being supported by a multimillion-dollar advertising and promotional campaign.
2003 Technol. Rev. Mar. 46/3 When fully digitized, CNN's video archives alone will require some four petabytes of storage.
2014 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 4/2 Mr Incedal watched extensive video clips of fighting in Syria.
B. n.
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a. The electrical signal or channel carrying images for display on a television screen or other electronic device; such images themselves; the visual element of a broadcast, recording, etc.Often contrasted or paired with audio.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun]
vision1910
video1935
visual1951
1935 Wireless World 18 Jan. 72/3 I had noticed that the Americans were beginning to take ‘audio’ away from its original use in conjunction with ‘frequency’ and to use it for this special purpose; and that they were toying with the idea of ‘video’ as its complement.
1937 L. Lewis Radio Dict. in Printers' Ink Monthly May 45/2 Video, the sight channel in television, as opposed to audio, the sound channel.
1940 Broadcasting 1 June 32 Video seen 230 miles at sea. Clear steady images picked up during test.
1946 Electronic Engin 18 265 The I.F. rather than the video is fed from the main console to the display units.
1964 Times 7 Feb. p. iv/3 It records not only sound but a continuous picture—video—as well!
1982 G. White Video Techniques vi. 134 Sound is as important as the video and often more difficult to edit.
1997 Sci. Amer. Oct. 25/1 (advt.) The new camera can shoot and record up to 20 minutes of broadcast-quality motion video on a 12cm Phase-Change disk (PC).
2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 30 June b8/4 Streaming music and video are data hogs, as are video-chat services.
b. Originally U.S. An apparatus for converting such an electrical signal into moving visual images and displaying them on a screen; a television set, computer monitor, etc. rare.
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1944 Variety 6 Sept. 1/2 20,000 classroom videos... Postwar plans for equipping 20,000 schoolrooms with television apparatus are already under way.
1948 N.Y. Herald Tribune 15 June 16/6 I have yet to hear any one say, ‘Let's turn on the video’ but I expect it any day.
1983 What's New in Computing Jan. 5/1 The rest of the machine, the discs, the power supplies and the videos are all retained or upgraded and existing software can be run side by side with new software.
2. U.S. colloquial. Television as a broadcasting medium. Now disused, except as merged in sense B. 5.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > as medium
television1931
video1939
small screen1944
1939 Broadcasting May 60/1 (heading) Second article on video is published by Fortune.
1946 Time 25 Feb. 72 NBC published a 55-page booklet, listing words & phrases commonly used in video.
1954 Billboard 13 Nov. 21 Most of the big name spinners have taken a fling in video during the last five years, but their survival-average has been low.
1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) iv. 302 By 1980 it was clear that it was no longer possible to make a distinct separation between what we call film and what we know as video, or television.
3. colloquial (originally British). A video recorder, esp. a videocassette recorder. See also VCR n. at V n. Initialisms 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video recorder or player
VTR1954
videotape recorder1956
video1958
vid1961
videogram1963
teleplayer1968
home video1970
VCR1971
U-Matic1972
video recorder1978
VHD1980
VHS1982
S-VHS1987
1958 Observer 26 Jan. 14/6 The Video is like a combined tape-recorder and cinema camera. It records your television appearance complete with sound track and can be played back at the touch of a switch.
1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 190 We are the only family in our street who haven't got a video.
1991 Which? Nov. 654/1 VideoPlus..takes control of telling the video when to start and stop recording.
2014 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. a10 Police then turned on a video to record him confessing.
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(a) A recording of moving visual images made or held on magnetic tape or (in later use) in a digital format. Also: (colloquial) a videocassette.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording
videotape1953
videotape recording1953
video recording1956
vid1961
video1968
videogram1972
1968 Observer 14 Jan. 28/4 The days of the disc, in the pop world at least, are numbered. For soon will come the video.
1981 Church Times 7 Aug. 5/3 They..went down to BBC television... Later he popped round to the school and showed them a video of themselves.
1990 Star-Ledger (Newark) 25 Feb. ii. 4/2 Multi-use entertainment alcove houses family ‘library’ of books, videos, TV, VCR and stereo equipment.
2003 K. Slater & J. Borte Pipe Dreams (2004) iv. 59 Sean and I would pick up videos from local surf shops.
2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 13 Nov. d1/1 Watch a video of Chef Taber showing the proper way to brunoise and julienne cut vegetables.
(b) spec. = music video n. at music n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording > type of
kidvid1955
music video1981
video1981
nasty1982
scratch-tape1982
scratch1985
scratch video1985
mukbang2013
1981 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 3 Aug. Although MTV will originate some of its own programming, most of the videos will be provided for free by record companies.
1993 A. Goodwin Dancing in Distraction Factory 10 The song appears to be a single tale of romantic loss, but the video introduces a new element.
2010 Vanity Fair July 79/1 Having transformed a fun but marginal song into a heroic and historic video, Michael Jackson rode ‘Thriller’ to the mountaintop.
b. As a mass noun: magnetic tape, or (in later use) any of various digital media, as a recording or storage medium for moving visual images. Frequently in on video. Cf. videotape n.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > videotape or videodisc
videotape1953
videodisc1964
video1970
record1976
home video1981
1970 Stage & Television Today 17 Sept. 9/1 (advt.) Your audition will be recorded on video that can be played at any time.
1978 Radio Times 4 Mar. 4/2 We've got some video of a man he has already made contact with... We'll just have to cut in with that if necessary.
1983 New Scientist 3 Mar. 569/1 The BBC recognised early on that there was money to be made from selling archive programmes on video.
1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders (1997) 1357 We have video of their procedures from the reporters.
2011 E. Carpenter in A. Luyk Wisdom in Traffic Jam iv. 54 A short testimonial that you can capture on video with a pocket video camera.
5. The process of recording, reproducing, broadcasting, or distributing moving visual images on magnetic tape or (in later use) in a digital format.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun]
vid1961
video1970
home video1971
homevid1977
Laservision1981
S-Video1987
1970 It 9 Apr. 7 There are also groups of people exploiting video in any way they can think of.
1980 C. MacCabe Godard 26 You envisaged a different kind of distribution: film and video as a handcraft industry.
1996 D. E. James in M. Renov & E. Suderburg Resolutions ix. 125 Video provides the arena in which an autobiographical self can be talked into being.
2011 K. Haw & M. Hadfield Video in Social Sci. Res. v. 90 The common threads that explain why video has become such a popular tool in these approaches.
Phrases
P1. straight (also direct) to video: designating a film distributed on video without a prior theatrical release; of or relating to such a film. Often as a modifier.Sometimes, esp. in early use, with depreciative connotations.
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1985 Monthly Film Bull. Jan. 231/2 No masterpiece, certainly, but its..straight-to-video British release notwithstanding, not a film Siegel need be ashamed of either.
1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Jan. b6 Behrens was here shooting the straight-to-video movie Uncut Gem.
1999 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 10 Dec. He's currently developing a direct-to-video sequel to Peter Pan.
2010 S. Lamb Kettle of Vultures i. 15 She was arrested after burning the films of Kurt Russell in the straight-to-video aisle of a Blockbuster store in Coconut Grove.
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video on demand n. (a) U.S. rare the practice of watching television programmes recorded on videotape, rather than at the time of transmission; (b) a service accessed via a telephone line or (now usually) the internet, which allows a customer to watch any of a wide selection of television programmes, films, and other video content at any time by means of a computer or interactive television system; abbreviated VOD.
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1971 Iowa City Press-Citizen 29 Mar. 11 a/3 Cassette television, aptly described as ‘video on demand’.
1983 Telephone Engineer & Managem. (Nexis) 15 July 92 Customers..will demand not only voice service, but access to data, text display, remote telemetry, video on demand, and broadband services.
1990 M. M. Mirabito & B. Morgenstein New Communications Technol. vii. 137/2 The new system, the so-called ‘video on demand’, could offer the same collection of television shows in addition to self-help and exercise videotapes, movies, and a library of older television programs.
2006 Guardian 6 July (Technol. section) 2/1 Non-linear TV is content that we grab when we want it, such as video on demand, music downloads, computer games and anything else we choose at whim from the web.
Compounds
C1. Forming adjectival compounds of the noun in combination with a past participle, as video-based, video-enabled, video-projected, etc.
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1947 Billboard 20 Dec. 16/3 A continuous supply [of film] then keeps the video based newsreel going.
1972 Billboard 21 Oct. 12/2 The division..plans providing programming for cable systems and other video-related formats.
1982 Music Educators Jrnl. 62 ii. 64/2 The present entertainment market serves a video-oriented consumer.
1996 W. J. Mitchell City Bits iv. 73 Emergency room physicians can save precious time by examining patients in video-equipped ambulances.
2000 Times 10 Nov. ii. 16/2 Phantasms ambushed me at every turn. A colossal man's head reared up, video-projected from a state-of-the-art machine.
2005 Financial Times 23 Feb. (FT IT Review) 6/1 Unilever has deployed a couple of m-learning initiatives.., including..the delivery of the company's code of business principles via video-enabled handheld devices.
2008 USA Weekend 12 Dec. 20/2 The guitar plugs into your PC or Mac, and video-based lessons will walk you through scales, chords and a variety of songs.
C2. Most of the formations below are compounds of the adjective, but some (for example video rental n., video-sharing n., video streaming n.) probably show compounds of the noun; both types of formation are treated together here for ease of reference.
video amplifier n. a device designed to amplify the wide range of frequencies present in video signals and deliver such signals to a television or other display device.
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1937 Electronics Aug. 22/1 A video amplifier is one that is responsive to picture signals, and therefore, is an extremely good audio as well as a very wide band radio frequency amplifier.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xx. 55 Finally the video amplifier raises the signal to from 50 to 100 V to drive the picture tube.
2011 Deep-sea Res. II: Topical Stud. Oceanogr. 58 1312/2 The camcorder was controlled from the surface... Signal loss in the 660m long umbilical was compensated by boosting the signal with a video amplifier.
video arcade n. originally U.S. an indoor amusement arcade wholly or largely given over to coin-operated video game machines.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > amusement arcade > specific
pinball arcade1939
video arcade1975
1975 Independent Jrnl. (San Rafael, Calif.) 21 Jan. 17/2 A proposal for a video arcade at 857 Fourth Street was unanimously rejected by the San Rafael City Council last night.
1984 N. Mailer Tough Guys don't Dance iii. 63 His eye glittered as if I had made a direct hit in a video arcade.
2014 Recorder (Indianapolis) 3 Oct. A9 They also incorporate a high-tech video arcade into their sensory motivating lobby.
video art n. art that uses video technology or equipment as a medium, such as the broadcasting or transmission of recorded images, sculptural installations incorporating video displays, performances incorporating video recordings, etc.; see also video installation n.Video art is typically distinguished from traditional (or experimental) cinematography by not utilizing the cinematic conventions of narrative, plot, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > video art
video art1970
1970 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 18 Jan. 18/4 A major figure in the growth of Video art.
1999 Daily Tel. 25 Jan. 8/5 The first change visitors would notice was inside the atrium with new displays—mostly ‘video art’ and ‘installation sculptures’—on the theme of the marine environment.
2013 New Yorker 4 Feb. 77/1 John Cage's ‘String Quartet in Four Parts’..wove airy, eerie patterns around stop-motion video art by Lothar Osterburg.
video artist n. (a) U.S. an actor or performer on television (now disused); (b) a person who creates video art.
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1946 Billboard 16 Nov. 12/4 George Scheck..has set up a personal management office and will specialize in video artists.
1971 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 6 July 15/5 Over 150 video artists have been invited to contribute tapes to..a four-week videotape presentation at the Pacific Film Archive of the University Art Museum, Berkeley.
1992 Lakota Times (Rapid City, S. Dakota) 1 June (Special ed.) 9/3 (advt.) The Great Plains Film Festival is an annual regional venue for independent film and video artists working in the heartland.
2012 Independent 4 Dec. 7/1 Elizabeth Price was last night awarded the Turner Prize.., the first video artist to win for more than a decade.
video blog n. a blog primarily composed of video postings; (also) a video posted to such a blog.
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2000 A. Miles hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog 27 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) Welcome. this is a video blog. don't know if there are lots around, or what they should be called. but if its ok to call a web log a blog then it this can be a vog. i guess.
2002 Age 16 Apr. (Next section) 2/4 He will speak about what he calls ‘vlogs’ or video blogs.
2008 D. K. Breakenridge PR 2.0 x. 179 It's a video blog all about cooking.
2010 S. E. Cupp Losing our Relig. ii. 54 After the Miss USA competition,..he posted a video blog denouncing her.
2014 T. Martin Invisible Sale xi. 158 Believe it or not, you can create, publish, and maintain an entire video blog using nothing other than an iPhone.
video board n. (a) a computer monitor (rare); (b) = video card n.; (c) a large video screen, typically used to display video, images, and data in a public place.
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1975 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 20 Feb. 9/4 Clerks, using an electronic video board connected with a computer in Tulsa, Okla., will take information calls and make reservations.
1977 Computerworld 7 Nov. 54/4 Options include additional memory, line printers, CRT terminals,.., video board and video programmable read-only memory and an additional parallel port.
1983 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 20 Jan. 14/1 Giles then officially unveiled the plan to build the $4 million, 32-by-42 foot video board. Construction begins soon..in the highest level of the Vet's center field seats.
1993 Orange Coast Dec. 171 The Angels were kind enough to acknowledge on the stadium video board the feat by the pitcher they had dealt with nine months earlier.
2004 B. Press & M. Press PC Upgrade & Repair Bible iii. 41 Game designers today assume fast processors, fast buses, and hardware acceleration in the video board.
video calling n. telecommunication employing video and audio technology so that people may see and hear each other, esp. over the internet; (also) an application which provides this technology.
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1968 Bell Lab. Rec. 46 291/2 The second looks forward to the era of international video calling and long-distance domestic use of communication satellites.
1985 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. d5/2 (advt.) Videocalling that's cost effective, convenient, productive and available right now.
1996 Network World 16 Dec. 58/3 I predict video calling over intranets and the Internet will be big.
2013 S. K. Gunter Laptops Simplified (ed. 2) xii. 193 You need to set up video calling first before making an attempt.
videocam n. a video camera.
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1950 Billboard 16 Sept. 8/3 Sample TV films will be screened, including examples of..Larry Gordon's videocam process.
1985 Los Angeles Times 11 Mar. iii. 13/4 This is cause to celebrate. Bring the kids. Bring the videocam.
2013 A. H. Vachss Aftershock 76 The red dot on the videocam popped whenever he activated it.
video camera n. a camera for producing an electrical signal that corresponds to a changing scene and can be recorded or input to a television or other display device.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video camera
camera1909
video camera1939
cam1969
camcorder1982
1939 Electronics Feb. 35/2 (caption) Sir John Ogilvie.., new chief of the British Broadcasting Corporation, inspects a video camera mounted on a truck, at the recent London Radio Show.
1978 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Dec. 28/1 Videocameras for home productions range from $300 to $1500.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Oct. b8/1 The phone..includes a touch-screen keyboard, a rollerball control..and a 3.2-megapixel still and video camera.
video capture n. the process of recording scenes as digital video; the capacity to accomplish this; often attributive.
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1974 Electronic Design 1 Sept. 20/3 The video capture function also permits users to display and verify visually critical OCR information.
1994 PC Mag. 22 Nov. 51/4 The Viper Pro Video board provides accelerated playback, but not video capture.
2004 D. F. Wallace Oblivion 329 Video capture of a camera's own monitor causes what is known in the industry as feedback glare.
2012 Daily Mirror 29 June 39 The rise of video capture handsets has also seen demand for camcorders plunge by around 21%.
video card n. a component of a computer system, typically a printed circuit board, that controls the display and provides an interface for one or more monitors; spec. an expansion board that augments the display capabilities of a computer.
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1976 Byte Oct. 65/2 (advt.) Prices: Basic kit including chassis, CPU and video cards—$595, $795 assembled.
1990 Fortune Dec. 31/1 A built-in video chip runs either an Apple monochrome or low-cost color monitor—without adding a video card.
2011 J. McCall Gaming the Past 176 For video games of the past decade, the most important system requirement is the video card.
videocassette n. [compare audio cassette n. at audio adj. Compounds] a cassette of videotape.
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1969 Guardian 6 May 6/1 The time when we will plug video-cassettes into our television sets.
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 3 May 30/1 With its tougher law on videocassettes, West Germany hopes to keep its youth away from the nasties.
2010 R. Skloot Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks (2011) xxix. 271 Deborah..fished a videocassette from the pile and held it up for me to see.
videocassette recorder n. [compare earlier videotape recorder n. at videotape n. Compounds 2 and cassette recorder n. at cassette n. Compounds] a machine that, when linked to a television set, can be used to record broadcast material on to videocassette and to play back videocassettes; abbreviated VCR.
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1969 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Aug. 20/3 Ampex Corp. intends to expand its product lines to include..video cassette recorders.
1982 M. Babson Death beside Seaside xv. 132 That's a video cassette recorder! Where did he get that? We couldn't afford that.
2014 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 8 Mar. c2 The outdated videocassette recorder.
video chat n. an informal conversation conducted on or by video; (now esp.) a face-to-face conversation held over the internet between people in different locations, who view live images of each other by means of webcams and dedicated software, mobile phones, etc.
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1967 Argus (Fremont, Calif.) 15 Dec. 9/1 (heading) President schedules video chat.
1988 N.Y. Times 21 Aug. iii. 13/2 The chairman..held an informal video chat to reassure..employees during an attempted takeover.
1993 Financial Post (Canada) 13 Nov. 36/1 Say you want to hold a video-chat between Vancouver and Toronto for an hour. Adcom Electronics Ltd. would charge you about $357.50.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Apr. iii. 3/3 Both sons are now in China, and Ms. Lai often has video chats with them when she is home in New York City.
2015 Entertainment Close-up (Nexis) 22 Jan. Members can schedule a time to speak with a physician either on the phone or through a video chat.
video-chat v. intransitive to communicate over the internet by means of a video chat.
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1998 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 16 July (PC Post section) 8/1 The arrival of low-cost video cameras, high-compressing software and the Internet means that you, too, can video-chat with your friends and family.
2003 T3 Mar. 125/1 To video-chat with an online contact, you'll both need sound cards and speakers (to hear each other talk), plus webcams.
2010 New Yorker 25 Oct. 43/3 He looked utterly at ease video-chatting about social networks.
2013 New Yorker 25 Nov. 93/2 When they video-chatted, they took screen shots.
video compression n. the process of reducing the amount of bandwidth necessary to transmit a video signal; (Computing) the reduction of the amount of memory occupied by a video file.In both cases, methods of video compression are typically designed to minimize any resulting loss in video quality.
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1959 Radio-electronics Feb. 35/2 Video Compression. Development of a method of bandwidth compression of 3.5-mc video signals, down to the order of 1 mc for transmission.
1986 Network World 12 May 11/4 Video compression techniques can reduce the information needed to carry on a full-motion video conference.
1999 A. Inglis et al. Delivering Digitally xiii. 188 Once video compression became available it was recognized that this technology offered a solution to the problem of storing digitized video.
2013 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 2 June d4/1 How does Netflix work this magic? It uses the latest methods of video compression, for one thing.
videoconference n. a teleconference involving video screens which allow participants to see as well as hear one another.
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society > communication > telecommunication > conferencing > [noun] > conference
teleconference1929
telecon1945
videoconference1970
video teleconference1970
telemeeting1973
1970 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 31 July 1/1 The national closed-circuit video conference was held simultaneously in 14 cities.
1983 Times 25 June 8/5 Whether a face-to-face meeting is in any sense ‘better’ than a videoconference is a different question.
2004 K. H. Jones in J. DiMarco Computer Graphics & Multimedia iii. 42 How wonderful would it be to conduct a videoconference with my associates at Sony as I finish my cup of coffee at the local coffee shop.
videoconferencing n. the action or practice of holding a videoconference.
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society > communication > telecommunication > conferencing > [noun]
conferencing1905
teleconferencing1963
videoconferencing1967
video teleconferencing1977
1967 G. W. Brown et al. Edunet v. 175 One or more remote access..consoles and displays, with perhaps TV equipment for video conferencing.
1987 T. Forester High-tech Society (1989) iv. 125 Companies have found the practice of videoconferencing a great deal more complicated and expensive than the tele-visionaries implied.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 May b6/1 People in the growing high-technology end of the industry..say the Skype-type systems have helped videoconferencing gain traction.
video dating n. the practice whereby clients of a dating agency, or users of an online dating service, may view a video recording of prospective dates, and may also make such a recording themselves; dating by such means; often attributive.
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1975 Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 1 Sept. 7/2 Video dating helps because it's like window shopping—you can look but you don't have to buy.
1997 D. Boyle Subject to Change xviii. 177 It turned out he was living in Los Angeles and running a video dating service.
2015 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 Jan. YouTube launched as a video dating site.
video dial tone n. now historical a service enabling users to view television broadcasts, use home shopping services, access computer databases, etc., via a linked telephone and television network.
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1988 A. L. Wallgren Video Program Distribution & Cable Television 6 It may be time for Government to develop policies which encourage the provision of a ‘video dial tone’, a concept which could permit access on demand by video programmers, packagers, individuals, at nondiscriminatory rates.
1996 Telephony (Electronic ed.) 10 Feb. Open video systems, once touted as the new and improved version of video dial tone, seems to have met a fate similar to that of its predecessor.
2011 J. Holt Empires of Entertainm. vi. 146 The Baby Bells were now free to provide cable service or ‘video dial tone’, as it was then called, outside their local area.
video diary n. a series of video recordings made by a person over a period of time, focusing on his or her experiences, thoughts, and feelings; a film or television programme composed of such material.
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1974 Women & Film Nos. 5–6. 87/2 Liberation Within My Family is a very personal video diary.
2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 6 Aug. They will tour Scottish schools, initiating partnerships with Scots children through internet links and video diaries.
2012 A. Lázaro-Reboll Spanish Horror Film v. 194 It works as a video diary of Valencia's favourite beloved places, family moments and situations.
video display terminal n. = visual display unit at visual adj. 6e; abbreviated VDT.
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1966 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 12 Dec. (advt.) Plans include time sharing, multi-programming, tele-processing, various direct access devices, remote inquiry and video display terminals.
1983 Boston Globe 12 July 3/5 Video display terminals, or VDTs, have become commonplace in many offices.
2010 P. Pillastrini et al. in Appl. Ergonomics 41 436 (heading) Work-related posture and low back pain in video display terminal operators.
video display unit n. = visual display unit at visual adj. 6e; abbreviated VDU.
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1964 U.S. Patent 3,142,032 2 An electrical connection extends from the slipring and brush..to video amplifier and thence to a video display unit.
1983 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. May 99/1 Engineers have at their disposal newly developed hardware and software, with modern distributed control systems using computer interface and video display units.
2003 D. T. Wigle Child Health & Environment ix. 252 Within homes, exposures from appliances (MW ovens, video display units, television sets) contribute a few tens of microwatts per square meter.
video drama n. [probably after radio drama n. at radio n. Compounds 1b] (originally) a dramatic production written or adapted for television (chiefly U.S.); (later) a dramatic production performed for, or released as, a video recording; (as mass noun) such productions considered as a genre.
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1942 Broadcasting 23 Feb. 48/4 (heading) First video drama.
1979 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 12/6 Such moments..were rare in Alick Rowe's Two People (ITV)... Video-drama remains uncertain about the love story.
2002 L. Schein in F. D. Ginsburg et al. Media Worlds 235 Amateur productions by people who..develop a hobby by making a video drama with local friends and relatives.
video film n. (a) U.S. cinematographic film used to pre-record television programmes (rare); (b) U.S. (now disused) a cinematographic film of a television broadcast; (also) a film drama made to be shown on television; a TV movie; (c) chiefly British a video recording, spec. a film on videocassette.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > film > types of
safety film1905
film loop1906
movie film1913
plastic film1925
sixteen millimetre1926
loop1931
video film1939
loop film1940
1939 Broadcasting 15 Feb. 22/3 New video film. Paramount Pictures..has developed a special soft process negative for television reproduction.
1944 R. E. Lee Television ix. 182 Even with the financial savings of videofilm, television is the most expensive way of selling things that man has ever concocted.
1955 Amer. Cinematographer 36 365/1 Within a matter of minutes, this video film recording can be quick-processed and screened.
1983 Daily Tel. 10 June 2/3 Management brought in video films which were shown in updated form every few months to enable employees to know how the company was functioning.
2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 6 Feb. 14 The current guides in Harborne hope to develop the book into a cassette tape and a video film.
video frame grabber n. a device or software function which allows a single frame of a television picture or video sequence to be captured (typically in digital form); cf. grabber n. Additions.
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1978 Proc. 1st Internat. Conf. Picosecond Phenomena 384 An example of streak image captured by a one video frame grabber (Hitachi) is shown on the left.]
1979 Intelligent Machines Jrnl. 25 June 5/4 (advt.) Complete on two S-100 boards, CAT-100 is the original 16-color imaging system with high resolution video frame grabber.
2009 R. Lunsford Meteors viii. 163 To run MetRec you need a video frame grabber installed in your computer.
video frequency n. a frequency in the range employed for video signals (i.e. up to tens of megahertz), esp. one in the higher part of this range; often attributive.Unlike radio frequency, not a formally defined band or range of frequencies. Cf. earlier picture frequency n. (a) at picture n. Compounds 4.
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1934Video frequency [see sense A. 1a].
1937 Electronics Aug. 23/2 There are several ways of designing an amplifier to give satisfactory response for video frequencies.
1956 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. II. i. 28 The video-frequency signal generated by scanning such a scene has a uniform level which is interrupted by the sync signals.
2002 Sound & Vision May 84/3 Set the sharpness control too high, and you'll get ringing or ghosting at certain video frequencies, seen as faint white lines next to objects.
video game n. a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display (now usually a program running on a games console, personal computer, or mobile device); (also) a software package for such a game; cf. computer game n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > electronic games
computer game1955
game1967
video game1973
1973 Daily Cougar (Univ. of Houston) 25 Sept. 5/1 Video games such as ‘Pong’.
1983 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Jan. 1/2 Coleco's 1982 earnings ‘appear to be well in excess of five times 1981 levels of $7.7 million,’ the third-largest maker of video games said.
1993 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. ii. 22/5 MPEG 1..can produce about 30 minutes of videotape-quality image on a single CD and is already being used for video games.
2011 Gamepro Feb. 10 I'm part of the first generation to grow up with video games.
video gaming n. the activity or pastime of playing video games; often attributive.
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1975 Salt Lake Tribune 23 Nov. c8/5 Our Franchise Video Gaming Entertainment Centers are second to none.
1980 N.Y. Mag. 17 Nov. 56/3 Baer..holds dozens of patents for video-gaming techniques.
2001 Times 19 Nov. d9/2 He was not just unveiling the much-hyped Xbox but the future of video gaming.
2010 K. Roberts Cyber Junkie i. 18 Like many video gaming addicts, Chris also spends a lot of time discovering ‘neat’ things on the Internet.
video grab n. a still image obtained from a single frame of a video sequence or television picture, typically in digital form; (also) the process of obtaining such an image; cf. grab n.2 Additions.
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1986 Graphic Repro June 15/4 Crosfield launched a Design Systems Marketing Division... This will co-ordinate products like Pro Edit Visualiser, Aesthedes and Newsframe video grab.
1991 Times 27 Mar. 33/1 The videograb is an electronic technique whereby images from television are captured digitally at a high enough level of quality to enable them to be reproduced in newspapers.
2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 May a6 (caption) The wreckage of a suicide bomber's vehicle at an army base in Niger on Thursday, in a Niger TV video grab.
videograb v. transitive to capture (a frame or image) as a video grab; cf. grab v. Additions.
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1989 Building 6 Jan. Combining a three-dimensional computer model with photographic material ‘video grabbed’ from a magazine or similar source.
1991 Times 27 Mar. 33/1 Most front and back-benchers are more likely to be videograbbed than interviewed these days.
2006 J. B. Twitchell Where Men Hide 11 Once the graphic artists had videograbbed enough imagery from the television, they finally drew the correct image.
video grabber n. = video frame grabber n.
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1987 InfoWorld (Nexis) 30 Nov. 16 The product comes with graphics tools... The company plans to add video grabber and facsimile options next year.
1999 Hindu 28 Jan. 27/5 The Video grabber..can pull a sequence from an analog VCR or television screen and turn it into a digital sequence for processing on the PC.
2009 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 Nov. For better video quality, the Canopus ADVC 55 video-grabber device..faithfully converts an analogue video into a digital file and transfers it to a computer.
video installation n. Art an installation of video art; cf. video art n.
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1975 Arts Mag. Nov. 64/2 (heading) Video installation: Paul Kos and the sculptured monitor.
1988 N.Y. Mag. 5 Sept. 23/2 Visitors will encounter a video installation by Nam June Paik... He's created an 80-monitor work called Get-away Car.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald 18 Feb. (Metro section) 26/1 The video installation comprises three large projections revealing close-ups of men weeping.
video jock n. originally U.S. = video jockey n.; cf. VJ n.2 1.
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1950 Billboard 7 Oct. 69/1 (heading) Art Ford's P's and Q's for video jocks.
1981 Los Angeles Times 4 Mar. vi. 2/2 The service [sc. MTV]..will have the appeal of a contemporary music station with its own ‘video jocks’ introducing three- to four-minute music segments.
1998 B. Fong-Torres Hits just keep on Coming xvii. 222 After rejecting a position as a video jock..in New York.., Dees joined KIIS-FM.
2011 Chester Chron. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 2 On special nights, ‘video jocks’ will mix video images synched with the music.
video jockey n. [after disc jockey n. and radio jockey n. at radio n. Compounds 3] originally U.S. (a) a host of a television show that features music videos or musical performances (now disused); (b) = VJ n.2
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1950 Los Angeles Times 14 June 26 (advt.) See and hear top name entertainers..with video jockey Bill Leyden..channel 11.
1965 Variety 18 Aug. 1/3 A video jockey (‘vee-jay’ in the Kaiser coinage).
1981 Billboard 11 Apr. 74/3 On-air video jockeys for its Aug. 1 teeoff for its MTV 24-hour cable music channel.
2014 Santa Fe New Mexican 7 Feb. (Pasatiempo Suppl.) 36/1 He was also something of a Hollywood personality, having done a stint as an MTV video jockey while still a teenager and taking bit parts in movies.
video journalism n. television journalism; (now) esp. a form of journalism in which a television reporter writes, shoots, edits, and presents his or her own report on video.
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1953 N.Y. Times 11 May 34/2 The premiere was perhaps the most incredibly awkward bit of video journalism yet seen.
1977 Washington Post 3 June b 7/1 ‘Guess Who's Pregnant?’ is not what could be called an accomplished or resourceful piece of video journalism.
2009 C. H. Sterling Encycl. Journalism 1425/1 Video journalism requires a journalist's physical presence—something long taken for granted by photojournalists but not necessarily by text-based journalists, who may do much of their fact-gathering remotely.
video journalist n. [probably after photojournalist n.] a television reporter; (now) esp. one who writes, shoots, edits, and presents his or her own reports on video.
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1949 Sun (Baltimore) 1 May c29/1 Rounding out the television hit parade are..video journalists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in ‘Preview’, a magazine whose pages are filled with people and ‘live’ events instead of photographs and printers' ink.
1990 H. Whittemore CNN iii. 121 They could ‘combine categories’ to create a new breed of television worker, a hybrid form of electronic news creature: The video journalist!
2014 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 3 July (Features section) 22 The videos were the brainchild of video journalist Brady Haran.
video jukebox n. a jukebox which plays music videos; (in extended use) an electronic device or application that can store and play a large number of videos.
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1964 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. f11/2 (advt.) Fabulous Video Jukebox.
1986 L. Reed Video Violence in Pass thru Fire (2000) 291 (song) The video jukebox is playing Madonna.
2001 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 17 Feb. b3/4 A visitor to the site can enter a school's name and the video jukebox will search the archives and deliver a list of clips featuring that team over the years.
2006 T3 Jan. 91/2 There are a host of video jukeboxes around from Far Eastern manufacturers, but this one is the best thanks to its innovative touchscreen controls.
video link n. [probably after radio link n. at radio n. Compounds 1a] an electronic connection able to transmit video recordings; (also) technology that enables audio-visual communication between people in different locations.
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1944 Variety 11 Oct. 8/4 (heading) GE tele consultant sees inter-country video link postwar.
1982 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 16 Apr. The two-way video link allowed Egyptian officials to explain the potential for investment in their country to businessmen..across the U.S.
2007 HWM Jan. 47/3 Since there's no direct video link between the ViewDock and the monitor, video playback still has to go through the iTunes software on your computer.
2014 T. Sasson New Amer. Zionism iii. 72 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the gathering by video link.
video mail n. email that contains a video file (esp. as an attachment) or a hypertext link to such a file; cf. V-mail n.2
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1976 Computer Dec. 24/2 One's first thought of a video newspaper or video mail is usually of a system encompassing at least a city, or perhaps a nation.
1991 Economist 23 Nov. 151/1 Video mail is electronic mail with sound and moving pictures. Pandora enables any researcher to record a message—which can be attached to some supporting text.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 12 Sept. ii. 5 (advt.) To view Video Mail, click on the link and watch the video sent to you.
video map n. (a) a map produced electronically on a radar screen to assist in navigation; (b) a map consisting of video footage of the area being charted; (c) a map displayed on the screen of a television, computer, or other electronic device, frequently having interactive qualities or animated components (e.g. to display changing weather conditions).
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1949 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 28 June 17/1 One of the improvements is the development of a video map—a map that is superimposed on a radar screen, showing the topography in any particular airline.
1981 Billboard 14 Nov. 76/3 Two disks and a computer were combined to paint a video map of Aspen, Colorado.
1985 Yachting May 78/2 Even without printed maps aboard, a quick glance at the evening news video map on a portable television set, is worthwhile.
1999 Wired Dec. 225/2 Filming in stereo and creating immersive environments of breathtaking verisimilitude, Naimark has been making video maps ever since.
2002 R. P. G. Collinson Introd. Avionics Syst. (ed. 2) 75 The paper map can also be stored using video compression techniques and then reproduced as a video map display—such a technique is known as a pixel based map.
2011 M. S. Nolan Fund. Air Traffic Control (ed. 5) viii. 340 If the airspace is relatively simple, the facility may need only one video map that can be used at every radar position.
video mapping n. (a) the projection of markings representing terrain, airfields, etc., on a radar screen; (b) the use of video footage to make a map of an area.
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1946 Flying May 105/1 A third method utilizes the technique known as ‘video mapping’, in which a special signal is generated and added to the radar signal so that a map appears directly on the radar tube.
1981 Financial Times 16 Dec. 14/8 Later enhancements of the system will include video mapping, suppression of echoes outside the areas of operational interest,..and video recording.
1988 Laserdisk Professional Nov. 31 This game allows the user to simulate flying a World War II Spitfire, with complete three-dimensional (3D) freedom in modelling terrain and video-mapping of buildings.
2011 T. G. Carpenter Constr. in Landscape iv. 62/1 The input to the assessment was digital video mapping of the entire route and a ground-based data base survey.
video message n. [probably after radio message n. at radio n. Compounds 1a; compare earlier picture message n. 2] a message in the form of a video recording, designed for subsequent viewing or broadcast; spec. (in later use) a short video clip sent from one mobile phone to another.
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1979 U.S. News & World Rep. 15 Oct. 66/3 The nation's telephone network will become even more sophisticated... Such systems will carry voice, data and video messages.
1992 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 23 July The highlight of the outdoor ceremony..was the viewing of a video message from astronaut Hoffman.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 May iii. 26 (advt.) Mom gets free video messaging on her phone... A video message is worth a thousand words.
video messaging n. the action or practice of sending video messages, esp. (in later use) from one mobile phone to another.
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1982 Forbes 15 Feb. 37/1 Wang executives speak glowingly of work stations with electronic calendars, information filing and retrieval systems, instant mail, even audio and video messaging devices.
2003 T3 Mar. 85/2 Video messaging is next-gen picture messaging, where you record a short clip of yourself and then send it to a mate.
2015 Wireless News (Nexis) 26 Jan. Video messaging on smartwatches will deliver the ultimate convenience in personal communications.
video monitor n. a monitor or display screen for showing video images or continuously updated information.
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1937 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture & Television Engineers 29 140 The video monitor may be switched either to the radio relay or the coaxial cable channel.
1975 Computerworld 9 July 16/2 Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.'s electronic financial information system uses 65 Conrac video monitors to display data to traders.
2013 New Yorker 2 Sept. 27/1 Volunteer Behavior Watchers, fortified by caffeine, sit through the night in a glass-fronted booth, studying video monitors and taking notes.
video nasty n. British colloquial a film distributed on video, containing scenes that are considered to be gratuitously and offensively violent or pornographic (cf. nasty n.1 3b); also in extended use.
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1982 Daily Mirror 31 May 15/2 (heading) War on video ‘nasties’.
1993 Time Out 31 Mar. 152/2 A sometime ‘video nasty’, presumably because of the needle in the eye/scalpel to the skull sequences.
2002 Independent 22 May 16/1 (heading) It will take more than a video nasty to curb the damage from drug abuse.
video piracy n. the unauthorized and illegal production and sale or distribution of copies of commercial video recordings; (now) esp. the sharing of unauthorized digital copies of commercial video content via the internet.
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1975 Boston Sunday Globe 20 Apr. b14/5 The big to-do over video piracy grew out of West Coast investigations into the bootlegging of cassette recording tapes.
1995 Guardian 8 Feb. ii. 13/3 Video piracy..is still not under control.
2009 Tico Times (San Jose, Costa Rica) (Nexis) 2 Oct. The roots of music and video piracy in the Internet era are usually traced back to one name: Napster.
video pirate n. (a) U.S. a person or organization transmitting television programmes without official authorization; cf. radio pirate n. at radio n. Compounds 3 (now disused); (b) a person who copies and distributes commercial video recordings illegally.
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1969 Variety 3 Sept. 50/3 Britain's projected video ‘pirate’, Caroline (successor to the radio pirate).
1975 Boston Sunday Globe 20 Apr. b14/6 Video pirates are hauling in a bundle.
1992 Time 15 June 15/2 In Patpong,..video pirates usually specialize in illegal copies of feature films and music videos.
2001 I. J. Cox et al. Digital Watermarking ix. 281 Bob is a video pirate who has a device designed to remove the copy protection watermark from Alice's movies.
video playback n. the action or function of replaying a video recording; an instance of this.
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1954 Pop. Mech. Mag. Jan. 177/1 Photo B shows the video recording, video playback, and sound circuits of this new video tape recorder.
1984 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Sept. With those instant video playbacks, some TV sports shows can be phenomenal.
2000 S. Prince New Pot of Gold (2002) iii. 112 It slowed production as everyone gathered to watch video playback.
2010 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 18 Apr. f7/2 (advt.) USB input for photos, music and video playback.
video player n. [compare teleplayer n. at tele- comb. form 2b] a machine, esp. one linked to a television set, that can be used to play back video recordings (cf. videocassette recorder n.); (in later use also) a piece of software for playing digital video files on a computer or similar electronic device.
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1965 Billboard 15 May 57/1 Our preliminary design for a home video player.]
1969 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. 79/2 The Sony Corporation said..that it had developed a videoplayer that could be connected to any standard color or black-and-white TV set.
1993 Empire Aug. 42/4 You cannot play an American videotape on a British video unless you have a video player which can convert the signal.
2012 New Yorker 9 July 72/2 The big tech story was the release of Apple's video player QuickTime.
video porn n. colloquial pornography in the form of video recordings.In quot. 1978 in hyperbolic use, denoting television programming perceived as having inappropriately sexual or immoral content.
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1978 Washington Post 17 May b11/3 A ‘humdingingly good example’ of video porn.
1982 Punch 13 Jan. 83/2 Before videoporn and clockwork dildo moved inexorably in.
1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals v. 30 At the time, Junk was pirating video porn for spare change.
2013 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 27 Jan. d1 He made $300 million on video porn.
video RAM n. Computing random-access memory to which image data is written immediately prior to the display of the image.
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1977 Electronic Products Feb. 74/3 The MTX-1632 SL video RAM, is a new member of the Matrox VRAM family.
1998 Santa Fe New Mexican 13 Dec. d5/1 Both Dell and Gateway have 16 megabytes of video RAM compared to TigerDirect's 8 megabytes.
2014 D. Morley Understanding Computers (ed. 15) iv. 153 To support higher resolutions, higher bit depths, and a greater number of colors, a sufficient amount of video RAM is required.
video recorder n. [compare earlier radio recorder n. at radio n. Compounds 3] (in early use) a machine for making cinematographic film recordings of television broadcasts (now disused); (later) a machine for making video recordings; spec. = videocassette recorder n.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video recorder or player
VTR1954
videotape recorder1956
video1958
vid1961
videogram1963
teleplayer1968
home video1970
VCR1971
U-Matic1972
video recorder1978
VHD1980
VHS1982
S-VHS1987
1948 Broadcasting 14 June 80/4 NBC's video program service to these stations by coaxial cable, radio relay, video-recorder and film.
1954 Tele-tech May 129 To be..acceptable to television stations, the magnetic video recorder must be capable of handling color signals with similar fidelity.
1978 Lancashire Life Sept. 131/1 Now the video-recorder has arrived in the home.
2014 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Dec. 12 By the time video recorders effectively were phased out a few years ago, you could pick one up for less than 50 quid.
video rental n. the renting of video equipment such as a VCR, videotapes, etc.; often attributive.In quot. 1948 with reference to the renting of televisions.
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1948 Billboard 15 May 3/4 The Shoreham is the pioneer in the video rental field.
1978 Winnipeg Free Press 10 Mar. 17/6 (advt.) Advance Industrial carries an extensive inventory of video rental equipment.
1997 P. Levinson Soft Edge vii. 74 By the 1990s, however, the cost of a video rental..was less than the cost of a new paperback.
2014 Sarasota (Florida) Herald Tribune (Nexis) 8 May e30 But not long after, the video rental giant fell on hard times.
video screen n. a screen for displaying video; the screen of a video monitor.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set > screen
telescreen1932
video screen1939
monitor screen1944
split screen1953
microscreen1979
1939 Radio News May 4 What you may expect to see on your video screen.
1978 Texas Monthly Nov. 132/2 Another [marketing device] is the increased use of video screens set up in department stores.
2010 Financial Times 16 June 2/7 In Derry, crowds massed outside the Guildhall to hear the prime minister's short statement, beamed live on a large video screen.
video-sharing n. Computing the action or process of sharing video footage; (now) spec. the action of making video recordings available to watch, esp. through social media websites; frequently as a modifier.
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1994 C. B. Winborne Devel. Virtual Schooling Enviroments (D.Phil. diss., Arizona State Univ.) v. 121 A remote teacher cannot directly test student machines... In this case, only video sharing would have contributed to the solution of the simple printer problem.
2006 Wired July 132/1 The tools of production, from blogging to video-sharing, are fully democratized.
2020 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 14 Sept. a1 TikTok—a video sharing app for a generation that keeps little to itself—is inspiring ardent loyalty from users who say its dance videos and candid expressions of teen reality help them feel connected.
video signal n. an electrical signal containing the information required to produce a visual image or images on a television screen or other display device; a signal containing video information.Cf. earlier picture signal n. at picture n. Compounds 4 and television signal n. at television n. Compounds 1b.
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1934 Proc. IRE 22 1242 It had further been concluded that the picture carrier should include the video signal, synchronizing impulses, etc.
1957 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. I. i. 17 The composite signal obtained by combining a picture with a synchronising signal is known as a video signal.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. b10/1 He can send his robot zipping around the house, returning a video signal along the way.
video store n. chiefly North American (originally) a shop which sells televisions (now disused); (in later use) a shop which sells or rents out video cassettes and DVDs.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1949 Salt Lake Tribune 3 Jan. 10/5 The only joys left on the cuff have been these [radio] shows, plus television, if you're lucky to find a bare spot in front of a video store window.
1963 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 22 Dec. (Central Valley ed.) 10 a/8 The trio could be responsible for a window smash burglary of a local video store.
1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 12 July By next summer, at least one company will have a McDonald's-style chain of identical video stores across the country.
2005 K. Crabb Movie Business vi. 421 About six months to a year after the theatrical release, the local video store will start carrying copies of your movie for rent or sale.
video streaming n. the streaming (streaming n. Additions g) of video.
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1994 PC Mag. 6 Dec. 32/3 You could do video-streaming processing for video conferencing on high-bandwidth WAN and LAN networks.
2004 Daily Mirror 29 Oct. 47/3 Sempron processors give impressive results with internet audio and video streaming.
2014 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 6 Sept. b4/5 This kind of continued sexual extortion highlights the risks teens face with live video streaming.
video surveillance n. surveillance that uses video cameras to monitor a person or place, esp. covertly; the recording produced by such surveillance.
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1969 N.Y. Times 26 Apr. 52/1 (advt.) Diebold, Incorporated, manufacturers..video surveillance systems [etc.]
1989 Independent (Nexis) 5 Oct. The police have had the estate under video surveillance for many weeks.
2002 K. J. Burchiel et al. Surg. Managem. Pain ii. 27/2 Video surveillance caught him fishing with his dominant ‘crippled’ left hand.
2014 Elyria (Ohio) Chron.-Telegram 26 Feb. a2/3 Police have video surveillance of the incident.
video teleconference n. chiefly North American = videoconference n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > conferencing > [noun] > conference
teleconference1929
telecon1945
videoconference1970
video teleconference1970
telemeeting1973
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > using telecommunication devices
teleconference1929
telecon1945
teleconferencing1963
video teleconference1970
1970 Chicago Tribune 31 July iii. 9/2 The National Association of Manufacturers yesterday held a conference for business executives..thru the medium of a video teleconference.
1995 A. A. Snyder Warriors of Disinformation v. 91 That fall, we did our first full-blown two-way video teleconference with the Eastern bloc.
1999 New Yorker 2 Aug. 36/2 It was a virtual war, fought in video-teleconference rooms.
2013 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 21 June 5 a/2 Woods testified by video teleconference from San Diego while Mohammed sat in court.
video teleconferencing n. chiefly North American = videoconferencing n.
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1977 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 1 Nov. a2/6 The telecommunications division recommends that video teleconferencing be implemented between Chicago and Springfield as soon as possible.
1990 G. Gilder Life after Television (1992) ii. 49 Propelled by relatively low-volume uses such as video teleconferencing.., the trend toward interactive architecture remains sluggish.
2006 N.Y. Times 22 Oct. xiv. 17/1 (advt.) Video teleconferencing allows patients to be with their loved ones while remaining in the comfort and care of the Calvary environment.
video telephone n. = videophone n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
microtelephone1879
field telephone1880
telephone extension1881
pay telephone1886
home telephone1893
substation1897
extension1906
railophone1911
dial phone1917
payphone1919
dial telephone1921
autophone1922
mobile telephone1930
viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
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1947 Western Prairie Gaz. (Glenboro, Manitoba) 26 June The new invention is known as the ‘video telephone’.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 270/2 The interview will remain the mainstay of any selection procedure: even if it is transferred to the video telephone.
2011 M. Carr tr. M. P. Toro Buried Alive 215 Samsung..sent video telephones so the miners..could communicate live with their families above.
video telephony n. the action or process of communicating in real time using both audio and video signals.
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1965 Times 22 Sept. 15/2 Long-distance videotelephony had been found to need special cables.
1989 Network World 13 Feb. 22/1 These circuits..will be used for high-bandwidth applications such as high-definition television, video telephony, high-speed videotex and videoconferencing.
2014 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 15 May 4 From internet and broadband connections, to video telephony and collaborative working space the design of new buildings has evolved.
video terminal n. = visual display unit at visual adj. 6e.In quot. 1953: a terminal of a video amplifier.
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1953 U.S. Patent 2,646,461 2 The video signal is applied to the video terminals from which it passes through the video amplifier to the modulator.
1970 Computer Managem. Nov. 52/2 The key point in all video terminal applications, present or future, is the ease of handling and understanding information presented in a familiar form.
1983 N.Y. Times 28 Jan. 18/2 I.R.S. operators will still do the talking, but the computers will catalogue and display on video terminals all the taxpayers' facts, figures and prior promises.
2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 574/4 1955..Jack Gilmore completes the TX.O, a human-machine interface using a CRT tube for display, an optical pen, a flexwriter, and function keys. It is the precursor of the modern video terminal.
video wall n. an array of television sets or computer monitors joined together to form a single unit so as to be able to show multiple images at once or one large image.
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1985 New Scientist 29 Aug. 26/1 Inside the store, a miniature video wall, made up from 16, 36-centimetre monitors, is mounted in a control room.
1993 N.Y. Mag. 3 May 50/1 He proposes a ‘video wall’ of grouped television monitors, creating a mosaic that could be fragmented, repeated in countless different variations or blown up and spread as one vast image across hundreds of screens.
2014 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 12 June b4 He will have installed eight 40-inch TVs on the patio by today... Fans can watch the game on a video wall 12 feet wide and 10 feet high.
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videov.
/ˈvɪdɪəʊ/, U.S. /ˈvɪdioʊ/ 1. transitive. U.S. To televise. Now rare.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > transmit by television [verb (transitive)] > transmit television pictures of
televise1926
video1944
1944 Variety 22 Mar. 26/4 WOR aired a platter and DuMont's W2XWV videoed the ceremonies via a Par newsreel clip.
1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 5 Colored people knew they were black, unique, separate and had a future. For paeans of Blackness were videoed throughout Black America.
2. transitive. To make a video recording of; to film with a video camera, record using a videorecorder, etc.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > make video recording of [verb (transitive)]
videotape1957
video1960
videorecord1972
cam1991
1960 M. McLuhan Let. 5 May (1987) 270 Am enclosing the..script which was videod here..and which will be broadcast May 18th.
1984 What Video? Aug. 4/2 My work..is videoing anything to do with the emergency services (road accidents, fires etc.).
1991 H. Holt Cruellest Month iv. 49 I've videoed an old Dirk Bogarde film for us.
2014 Cape Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. 5 They told her it was against the law to video them.
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adj.n.1934
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