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Video vs Hotlinking - What's the difference?

video | hotlinking |

As nouns the difference between video and hotlinking

is that video is television, television show, movie while hotlinking is directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.

As a verb video

is to record using video equipment.

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

    * ----

    hotlinking

    English

    (wp)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Internet) Directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an image or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.