videotape
videotape noun: a relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.
Noun
videotape (countable and uncountable, plural videotapes)
- A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.
- Synonym of videocassette (“cassette containing videotape”).
- Synonyms:
- videocassette
Verb
videotape (third-person singular simple present videotapes, present participle videotaping, simple past and past participle videotaped)
- to make a recording of something on videotape
- To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
videotape meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
videotape in Hindi
- वीडियोटेप
videotape in Marathi
- tape used to record videos
- व्हिडियो टेप vhiḍiyo ṭep
videotape in Urdu
- بصری فیتہ
videotape in Malayalam
- വീഡിയോ ടേപ്പിംഗിലേക്ക്
More languagesFewer languages
- videotape in Nepali
- भिडियोटेप
- videotape in Arabic
- شَرِيط فِيدْيُو šarīṭ fīdyū
- videotape in Persian
- نوار ویدیو navâr-e vidiyo
- videotape in Vietnamese
- băng hình, băng vi-đê-ô, ghi hình
Examples of videotape in a sentence
- Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.
- "I saw far too much tokus for my liking" in a review of videotapes, Smoots-Hogan declared.
- She would then roll around in the mess they made as I videotaped it.
Synonyms of videotape
Forms of videotape
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | videotapes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | videotapes |
| present participle | videotaping |
| past participle | videotaped |
| past | videotaped |
Origin of videotape
From video + tape, a trademark of media company Ampex.
Words formed from videotape
Phrases with videotape
Questions about videotape
- What does videotape mean?
- Videotape means a relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.
- What is videotape in Hindi?
- Videotape in Hindi is वीडियोटेप. See Videotape meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is videotape?
- Videotape can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of videotape?
- The plural of videotape is videotapes.
Words near videotape in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: videotape (page history and authors); videotape (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); videotape (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); videotape (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); videotape (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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