VIDEOTAPE
Dictionary entry overview: What does videotape mean?
• VIDEOTAPE (noun)
The noun VIDEOTAPE has 2 senses:
1. a video recording made on magnetic tape
2. a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound
Familiarity information: VIDEOTAPE used as a noun is rare.
• VIDEOTAPE (verb)
The verb VIDEOTAPE has 1 sense:
1. record on videotape
Familiarity information: VIDEOTAPE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VIDEOTAPE (noun)
Meaning:
A video recording made on magnetic tape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("videotape" is a kind of...):
tape; tape recording; taping (a recording made on magnetic tape)
video; video recording (a recording of both the video and audio components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program))
Meaning:
A relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("videotape" is a kind of...):
mag tape; magnetic tape; tape (memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information)
• VIDEOTAPE (verb)
Meaning:
Record on videotape
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
videotape; tape
Hypernyms (to "videotape" is one way to...):
enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)
Domain category:
film; flick; motion picture; motion-picture show; movie; moving picture; moving-picture show; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
Sam and Sue videotape the movie
They will videotape the duet
