VIDEO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does video mean? 

• VIDEO (noun)
  The noun VIDEO has 4 senses:

1. the visible part of a television transmission

2. a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program)

3. (computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display

4. broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects

  Familiarity information: VIDEO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIDEO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The visible part of a television transmission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

picture; video

Context example:

they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone

Hypernyms ("video" is a kind of...):

visual communication (communication that relies on vision)

Holonyms ("video" is a part of...):

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

video; video recording

Hypernyms ("video" is a kind of...):

recording (a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "video"):

videocassette (a cassette for videotape)

videotape (a video recording made on magnetic tape)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("video" is a kind of...):

visual communication (communication that relies on vision)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

telecasting; television; TV; video

Context example:

Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done

Hypernyms ("video" is a kind of...):

broadcasting (taking part in a radio or tv program)

Meronyms (parts of "video"):

picture; video (the visible part of a television transmission)

audio; sound (the audible part of a transmitted signal)

Domain member category:

frequency band; waveband (a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals))

boob tube; goggle box; idiot box; television; television receiver; television set; telly; tv; tv set (an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen)

television; television system (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)

action replay; instant replay; replay (the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape)

couch potato (an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television))

telecast; televise (broadcast via television)

colorcast (broadcast in color)

closed-captioned (broadcast with captions that are seen only on receivers having special equipment; can be provided for hard-of-hearing viewers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "video"):

cable; cable television (television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver)

HDTV; high-definition television (a television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail)

 Context examples 

In a laparoscopic-assisted colectomy, several small incisions are made and a thin, lighted tube attached to a video camera is inserted through one opening to guide the surgery.

(Colectomy, NCI Dictionary)

The research captured video of the fish in their environment.

(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)

The result may be viewed on a video screen.

(Endoscope, NCI Thesaurus)

When they looked closely at videos taken of the mosquitos in action, they noticed the insects landed much less frequently on graphene than on bare skin.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

Wong and his team caught this dynamic process on video.

(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)

This new method was developed with the help of the Panoptic Studio, a two-story dome embedded with 500 video cameras.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A computer environment in which multiple linkages enable users to move directly from one segment of audio, video, graphic, or text to another in a database.

(Hypermedia, NCI Thesaurus)

It may also be removed using a fine needle inserted through the chest wall, by surgery guided by a video camera inserted through the chest wall, or by an open biopsy.

(Lung biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

Parents should limit TV, video game and computer time.

(Exercise for Children, NIH)

The patient swallows the capsule and it takes video pictures of the inner walls of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines as it travels through the digestive tract.

(Capsule endoscope, NCI Dictionary)