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Definitions

videotape

[vid-ee-oh-teyp] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌteɪp /
NOUN
motion picture
Synonyms
STRONGEST
cinema feature film flick talkie
WEAK
cine cinematics cinematograph film flicker movie moving picture photodrama photoplay picture picture show silver screen talking picture
NOUN
movie
Synonyms
STRONGEST
cinema feature film flick motion picture picture show
STRONG
celluloid screenplay talkie
WEAK
cine cinematics cinematograph moving picture photoplay silent silver screen talking picture
NOUN
videocassette
Synonyms
STRONGEST
cartridge
STRONG
flick movie recording rental
WEAK
vid
VERB
record
Synonyms
STRONGEST
copy document file list log mark post register report
STRONG
book can catalog chronicle cut dub enroll enter enumerate indite inscribe insert matriculate note preserve tabulate tape transcribe video wax
WEAK
chalk up cut a track jot down keep account lay down make a recording mark down put down put in writing put on file put on paper put on tape set down take down tape-record write in
Antonyms
STRONG
cancel ignore neglect withdraw
VERB
tape
Synonyms
STRONG
audiotape register video
WEAK
make a tape tape-record
Antonyms
WEAK
loosen unfasten unglue unstick untape

Example Sentences

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Here, Tuason cleverly lifts a conceit from “The Ring,” where a cursed videotape gave the viewer seven days to live after popping it into the VCR.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

Any of today’s approaches could easily fail, just as Betamax lost out to VHS in the videotape format war decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

"They were supported by hundreds of hours of videotape, evidence, eyewitness testimony, they're indisputable."

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2025

When I finish, I rush to the kitchen, only to find a scene so melodramatic that for a second I think I have walked out of Ousting, the videotape, and into an entirely different movie.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich