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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
FaceTime en · PROPN
Etymology
Compare face time (“the amount of time spent in visual communication with another party”).
Meanings
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A videotelephony software developed by Apple Inc., introduced in 2010.
Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga.
2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2022:
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FaceTime en · VERB
Etymology
Compare face time (“the amount of time spent in visual communication with another party”).
Meanings
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(ambitransitive, informal) To communicate with somebody using the FaceTime videotelephony software.
Our children are FaceTime’ing their way through Roblox playdates, they’re texting grandma and grandpa, they’re watching YouTube instead of TV, and they’re begging for too-adult apps like Snapchat – so they can play with the face filters – and Musical.ly, which has a lot of inappropriate content.
2018 April 27, Sarah Perez, “Facebook’s Messenger Kids’ app gains a ‘sleep mode’”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2021:An email to the astronaut Jessica Meir, who FaceTimed with Freddy from the International Space Station, returned an auto-response: “Please resend after I’m back on planet Earth!”
2026 July 1, Will Oremus, “So Long to America’s Favorite Everymensch”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026:As I gazed into my father’s eyes, willing the right words, Lidia stepped out onto the balcony, handing me an iPad where Renata was FaceTime'''’ing.
2021 January 4, Love Belvin, Our Reckless Hope, MKT Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:ON WHAT HE [Uros Plavsic] MISSES ABOUT SERBIA “Obviously my family. Food, my friends. But technology today works so good for me. Like, FaceTime’ing everybody every makes it amazing."
2019 October 13, Grant Ramey, “Hoops Q&A: Getting to know new Vols big man Uros Plavsic”, in 247Sports, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2026:As for relating to each other, we’d texted and FaceTime’d each other throughout the day every day, providing emotional support, sharing memes and links to articles, and minimizing our sense of detachment and isolation.
2020 July 15, Mike Lauterborn, Pandemonium, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:I was careful when FaceTime’ing with my son to not show a background where he could see anything outside my home; I stayed away from the windows and doors.
2021 June 16, Mary J. Schalla, “The Day I Left”, in Escaping My Predator, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 55:I gritted through a smile, grateful we weren’t Skyping or FaceTime-ing or any other electronic face messaging that was available. It was bad enough he had to hear me stumble through our phone call. I didn’t need him to see my embarrassment as well.
2014, Jean Hovey, Stephanie Jones, Tidings of Love: 7 Holiday Romance Novellas, Crimson Romance, →ISBN:While she was away, we’d FaceTimed every day. Once, she’d FaceTimed me from the bathtub, a setting that felt so intimate to me, and my inner monologue was shrieking, “Act normal, act normal!”
2022 March 8, Jill Gutowitz, “A Supercut of Lesbian Yearning”, in Girls Can Kiss Now, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 91–92:"One night I was FaceTime'ing my girlfriend Jamie, and she told me that her school senior prom might be canceled.[…]," he [Josiah “JT” Duenas] recalled.
2020 April 10, Joan Aguon Charfauros, “Guam native's YouTube video rallies peers to donate school funds to help those in need”, in KUAM, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023:
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(ambitransitive, informal) To communicate with somebody using any form of video telephony software.
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Hypernyms
vidcall · vidchat