Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
VIDEOTAPE
videotape
(noun) a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound
videotape
(noun) a video recording made on magnetic tape
videotape, tape
(verb) record on videotape
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
videotape (plural videotapes)
magnetic tape used to record both video images and sound for subsequent playback or broadcasting
Verb
videotape (third-person singular simple present videotapes, present participle videotaping, simple past and past participle videotaped)
to make a recording of something on videotape
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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