Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - video

(videos, videoing, videoed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A video is a film or television programme recorded on tape for people to watch on a television set. ...the makers of films and videos. N-COUNT 2. Video is the system of recording films and events on tape so that people can watch them on a television set. She has watched the race on video. ...manufacturers of audio and video equipment. N-UNCOUNT: oft on N 3. A video is a machine that you can use to record television programmes and play videotapes on a television set. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use VCR) He’d set the video for 8.00. = video recorder, VCR N-COUNT 4. If you video a television programme or event, you record it on tape using a video recorder or video camera, so that you can watch it later. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use tape, videotape) She had been videoing the highlights of the tournament... = videotape, tape VERB: V n 5. Video is a system by which you can see television images or films on your computer, rather than on a television set. N-UNCOUNT