Video vs. Text — What's the Difference?

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode ray tube (CRT) systems which were later replaced by flat panel displays of several types.

A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form

A sequence of images processed electronically into an analog or digital format and displayed on a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.

The main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations

A signal carrying such images.

A written work chosen or set as a subject of study

A movie recorded electronically, usually including a soundtrack

A text message

The presentation of such a work.

Fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.

The electronic medium in which such movies are recorded

Send (someone) a text message

A music video.

The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.

Television, television show, movie.

The words of a speech appearing in print.

A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube).

Words, as of a libretto, that are set to music in a composition.

Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.

Words treated as data by a computer.

(dated) VHS.

A text message.

(Britain) To record using a video camera, to videotape

The body of a printed work as distinct from headings and illustrative matter on a page or from front and back matter in a book.

(Britain) To record a television program

One of the editions or forms of a written work

(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Something, such as a literary work or other cultural product, regarded as an object of critical analysis.

The visible part of a television transmission;

A passage from the Scriptures or another authoritative source chosen for the subject of a discourse or cited for support in argument.

A recording of both the video and audio components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program)

A passage from a written work used as the starting point of a discussion.

Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects;

A subject; a topic.

A textbook.

To send a text message to

To communicate by text message

To key or send text messages

A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

A book, tome or other set of writings.

(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

(by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

(printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

(transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

(intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

(dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component.

Any communication composed of words.

A textbook.

To write in large characters, as in text hand.

The words of something written;

A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon;

A book prepared for use in schools or colleges;

The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);