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Video vs Vidiot - What's the difference?

video | vidiot |

As nouns the difference between video and vidiot

is that video is video while vidiot is (derogatory|informal) a passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.

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.

    Related terms

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    See also

    * (wikipedia "video")

    Verb

    (es)
  • To record using video equipment

    • See also

    * ----

    vidiot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (derogatory, informal) A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.
  • * 1989 , Mike Yaconelli, Scott Koenigsaecker, Get 'em talking: 104 great discussion starters for youth groups (page 118)
    • You are a vidiot if you watch music videos for any period of time without stopping to think about what they are saying.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=March 4, author=Jack Helbig, title=Schoolhouse Rock Live!, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Cynics might say that any show based on television--like, say, The Real Live Brady Bunch--is bound to be popular among the nostalgic vidiot generation. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=July 28, author=Jack Helbig, title=Battery, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Featuring witty wordplay--Therriault could be David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley's long-lost love child raised in the wild by William Burroughs-- and a story and characters simple enough to be understood by your average vidiot play reader, Battery is just challenging enough to appeal to a young actor's ego but not so challenging as to scare her off. }}
  • * 2009 , Lori Sullivan, Overcoming Autism: A Parent's Guide (page 115)
    • We're raising a generation of vidiots , and it's going to be a problem when they get older.