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video call
[ vid-ee-oh kawl ]
noun
- an act or instance of communicating with one or more people using a smartphone, mobile device, webcam, etc., to transmit and receive both audio and video.
verb (used with or without object)
- to communicate with (one or more people) by using a smartphone, computer, etc., to transmit and receive audio and video: Employees working remotely are expected to videocall into the department meetings with the collaboration app.
It would be nice if the grandkids lived closer, but at least we video call each other pretty often.
Employees working remotely are expected to videocall into the department meetings with the collaboration app.
video call
noun
- a call made via a mobile phone with a camera and a screen, allowing the participants to see each other as they talk
Word History and Origins
Origin of video call1
Example Sentences
That’s what Gaza residents sheltering in this besieged Catholic parish called the time — usually 8 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. in Rome — when Pope Francis would video call Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
“Normally he would video call, but this was a normal call,” Romanelli said.
“The pleasure of making beautiful things and reveling in beautiful things and making art is a bizarre thing in America,” Specktor said during a video call in late March.
The Times checked in with Macht a few weeks later over a video call to discuss the reprising of his character.
Climate change “is a statistical thing that requires a fair amount of complexity, which leaves the human mind lots of avenues to escape from it,” Brosch told Salon in a video call.
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