Noun

(en noun)

(neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly itself.

* {{quote-book, 2007, title=Academic librarianship by design, author=Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank

, passage=None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,

* {{quote-book, 2008, title=Web 2.0 Heroes, author=Bradley L. Jones

, passage=There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.}}

(neologism) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on .

* {{quote-book, 2007, IPhone Fully Loaded, author=Andy Ihnatko

, passage=Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,

* {{quote-journal, 2009, title=Bring me the Horizon, journal=Revolver, date=March, author=Valerie McQueen

, passage=Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?}}

Noun

(en noun)

A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Katie L. Burke , title=Ecological Dependency , volume=101, issue=1, page=64 , magazine= citation , passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}

(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.

An attempt.

* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 455:

This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.