WEBCAM

webcam

(noun) a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and transmit them over the internet

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

webcam (plural webcams)

(computing, photography) A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a network, especially over the World Wide Web.

Hypernyms

• netcam

Verb

webcam (third-person singular simple present webcams, present participle webcamming, simple past and past participle webcammed)

To take part in a video communication via webcam.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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