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# video

«video» in Mova's school dictionary: **Moving pictures with sound recorded and watched on a screen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a video, videos); verb (video, videos, videoed, videoing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Moving pictures with sound recorded and watched on a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#m1)

2) A recording of something: a video of the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#m2)

3) Verb: to record something with a camera or phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and online safety: watching videos; only watch videos an adult says are okay; don't post videos of yourself or others without permission; things in videos can be fake. In school: watch a science video, make a class video. Phrases: watch a video, make a video, video call, video game, music video, on video.

### examples

- We watched a video about volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x1)
- Dad made a video of my first steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x2)
- Ask permission before you film someone in a video. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x3)
- I had a video call with my cousins in Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x4)
- My brother plays video games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x5)
- Some videos online are not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x6)
- Tell an adult if you see a video that upsets you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x7)
- Mum videoed the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/#x8)

### note

Countable: videos (no e). Verb past: videoed. Say «VID-ee-oh». Asking before filming or sharing videos of others is the polite and safe rule.

### In the corpora

- [Not everything you see is true: some stories and videos are made up or edited on purpose to fool people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/2/)
- [A few seconds of video of two brothers walking together does not tell you whether they have made up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/24/)
- [Then she told the world herself, in a video, that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/2/)
- [«Kate's done a video.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/7/)
- [The internet also makes things that look real but are not: AI videos, fake screenshots, forum posts with no name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «video» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/video/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.