vid

Informal recorded clip

Vid is informal shorthand for video.

It appears most often in casual digital contexts—social media, texting, gaming: I'll send you the vid later, Did you see that vid of the cat?

The clipped form saves keystrokes and sounds breezier than the full word.

video

footage

Recorded video material

playback · upload · download · thumbnail · embed · viral · buffer · render · compress · codec

Categories
Opposites
medium type

vidphoto

Captured still image

pic · still · image · snapshot · photograph

content temporality

vidlivestream

Real-time internet broadcast

still · freeze frame · live feed · static · live broadcast

sensory modality

vidaudio

Transmitted sound content

audio clip · podcast · sound bite · voice memo · recording

Phrases
Family

video, evidence, provide, evident, provided, evidently, videos, provides, videotape

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G