VHS

"VHS" is a common misspelling or typo for: pHs, vase, vast, vest, visa, vise.

Specialty Definition: VHS

Domain	Definition
Computing	VHS 1. Very High Speed. 2. storage Video Home System. JVC's video cassette format. 3. Virtual Host Storage. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Video Home System

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Video Home System (VHS) is the recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC and launched in 1976.
It became the standard in the 1980s after competing with Sony's Betamax and, to a lesser extent, Philips's Video 2000.

The physical looks of a VHS cassette.

A VHS-cassette contains a long 1/2 inch magnetic tape which is wound from one of two spools to the other, allowing it to slowly pass by the reader head of the video cassette recorder.
Several improved versions of VHS exist, most notably S-VHS, an improved analog standard, and D-VHS, which records digital video onto a VHS form factor tape.
VHS-C tapes (C for compact) was used in camcorders and could be played back in a regular VHS player with an adapter.
VHS tapes have an approx. 3 MHz horizontal resolution and 250 lines vertical resolution.
Although VHS officially stands for Video Home System some early reports claimed that the initials originally stood for Victor (Company) Helical Scan system.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Video Home System."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: VHS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
VHS	Danish	Hemorrhagisk virusseptikæmi	Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
VHS	Dutch	Virale haemorragische septicaemie	Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
VHS	English	Video Home-System	N/A
VHS	German	Virale hämorrhagische Septikämie	Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: VHS

Specialty definitions using "VHS": Betamaxed ♦ MPEG-1. (references)

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Modern Usage: VHS

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Kanal VHS (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: VHS

Domain	Title
Books	From VHS to DVD (reference) How to Shoot Better Video: Especially for Vhs, Beta, and 8Mm Cameras (Videoware) (reference) Their First Time in the Movies (With DVD & VHS) (reference) US DIGITAL & VHS CAMCORDER REPORT 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Left for Dead - Civil War Minutes VHS bundle (reference) Close-Up on Chemistry: Chemical Demonstrations (Book and VHS Edition) (reference) Cartoon Crazys (1 DVD & 1 VHS Combo Pack) (reference) Sentences, Complex and Compound-Complex (The English Tutor, VHS Vol. 3) (reference) Sentences, Simple and Compound (The English Tutor, VHS Vol. 2) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	VHS Cable (reference) SAMSUNG DVD-V2500 DVD Player and VHS VCR Combo (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: VHS

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Digital Photo Gallery: VHS

"VHS 1" by A. Carlos Herrera
Commentary: "VHS Format, an endangered species."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: VHS

"VHS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.29% of the time. "VHS" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	54.29%	57	44,859
Noun (plural)	45.71%	48	49,194
Total	100.00%	105	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: VHS

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "VHS": vhs-format, vhs-hi.
	Ending with "VHS": super-vhs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VHS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
vhs	768	vhs movie for sale	53
vhs to dvd	580	caratulas vhs	48
vhs movie	453	vhs to cd	46
copy dvd to vhs	203	record vhs to dvd	45
convert vhs to dvd	171	vhs case	43
vhs to dvd recorder	164	s vhs	43
vhs tape	160	vhs or rental	42
transfer vhs to dvd	146	vhs storage	41
dvd vhs	115	recording vhs to dvd	40
vhs duplication	110	used vhs	39
dvd vhs player	110	vhs label	39
vhs to dvd conversion	103	copying dvd to vhs	39
vhs camcorder	100	vhs porn	39
vhs video	96	blank vhs tape	38
d vhs	83	vhs player	38
adult vhs	70	another day die vhs	38
vhs cover	69	converting vhs to dvd	37
vhs c	66	copy vhs	37
vhs to vcd	66	vhs video tape duplication	37
dvd vhs combo	54	dispenser dvd vhs	36
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: VHS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-s-v"
	-1 letter: sh.
	Words containing the letters "h-s-v"
	+1 letter: shiv.
	+2 letters: haves, hives, schav, shave, shiva, shive, shivs, shove, vughs.
	+3 letters: chives, dovish, elvish, halvas, halves, havens, havers, havocs, heaves, helves, hooves, hovels, hovers, lavish, moshav, ravish, schavs, shaved, shaven, shaver, shaves, shavie, sheave, sheeve, shelve, shelvy, shivah, shivas, shiver, shives, shoved, shovel, shover, shoves, shrive, shrove, vanish.
	+4 letters: behaves, behoves, chevies, chevres, chivies, dervish, evanish, halvahs, halvers, harvest, haviors, heavens, heavers, heavies, humvees, knavish, mikvahs, mikvehs, mitsvah, peevish, reshave, seventh, seviche, shavers, shavies, shaving, sheaved, sheaves, sheeves, shelved, shelver, shelves, shivahs, shivers, shivery, shovels, shovers, shoving, shrieve, shrived, shrivel, shriven, shriver, shrives, slavish, sovkhoz, thieves, thraves, thrives, vahines, vampish, varnish, vetches, vichies, voguish, vouches, wharves, wherves, yeshiva.
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