Audiotaped

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. A method of capturing and storing sounds or speech involves the use of magnetic tape to enable later playback of audio content
2. The process of preserving auditory information utilizes tape technology, allowing for subsequent listening experiences of recorded conversations
3. The act of recording sound or spoken words involves magnetic tape, providing the ability to listen to the captured audio later on

Etymology: "Audiotaped" is the past tense and past participle of "audiotape," a verb meaning to record sound onto magnetic tape. Its base is the noun "audiotape," a compound of "audio" and "tape." "Audio" comes from the Latin "audire," "to hear," the same root behind "audience" and "auditory," and it entered English as a technical prefix in the twentieth century, when sound recording and broadcasting were developing. "Tape" is much older, a Middle English word for a narrow strip of woven cloth or cord, and it took its magnetic sense only after magnetic recording tape was developed in Germany in the 1930s. The verb itself follows the common English pattern of turning a noun into an action, so "to audiotape" simply means "to record onto audio tape." Its past form "audiotaped" appeared in the mid-twentieth century as magnetic tape recorders became common in homes, studios, and offices. Because the word is a plain combination of two existing parts, its history is largely the history of those parts.

Synonyms: recorded, taped