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Documentary vs Video - What's the difference?

documentary | video |

As nouns the difference between documentary and video

is that documentary is a film, tv program, publication etc which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner while video is video.

As an adjective documentary

is of, related to, or based on documents.

documentary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, related to, or based on documents.
  • which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
  • presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
  • Noun

    (wikipedia documentary) (documentaries)
  • A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
  • Antonyms

    * fiction

    Derived terms

    * fuckumentary * mockumentary * schlockumentary * shockumentary * stalkumentary

    Anagrams

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    video

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Television, television show, movie.
  • Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.
  • (dated) VHS.
  • Usage notes

    * Video is used in contrast with audio, which is sound only. * The plural is the singular.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "video")

    Verb

    (es)
  • To record using video equipment
  • See also

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