VIDEOTAPE

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 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)

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

videotape (record on videotape)

Sense 2

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)

Derivation:

videotape (record on videotape)

• VIDEOTAPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they videotape    ... he / she / it videotapes   
Past simple: videotaped   
Past participle: videotaped   
-ing form: videotaping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Record on videotape

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

tape; videotape

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 show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and 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

Derivation:

videotape (a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound)

videotape (a video recording made on magnetic tape)