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youtube | subscribe |

As a noun youtube

is (youtube).

As a verb subscribe is

(ergative) to sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

youtube

Alternative forms

* youtube

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?}}

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A video-sharing website.
  • Derived terms

    * Youtuber * YouTubular

    Verb

    (YouTub)
  • (neologism) To upload a video of something to .
  • * 2007 , "Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry", Guardian Unlimited , Feb 5, 2007
  • The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed .

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "YouTube") ----

    subscribe

    English

    Verb

    (subscrib)
  • (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
  • Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
  • To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
  • To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
  • I don’t subscribe to that theory.
  • To pay money to be a member of an organization.
  • To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
  • 1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;
  • To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
  • Each man subscribed ten dollars.
  • (business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
  • 1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
  • To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
  • Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.
    Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.
  • * Milman
  • All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
  • (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
  • * Sir Thomas More
  • [They] subscribed their names under them.
  • (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
  • (obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I will subscribe him a coward.

    Derived terms

    * subscribable * subscriber * subscript * subscription