FaceTime

facetime English Alternative forms en facetime Etymology Compare en face time the amount of time spent in visual communication with another party. Proper noun A videotelephony software developed by Apple Inc., introduced in 2010. en 2022-09-27 Barclay Bram My Therapist, the Robot w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/chatbot-therapy-mental-health.html 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20221214071333/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/chatbot-therapy-mental-health.html Verb + +,~-ing,~'ing +,+' en informal ambitransitive To communicate with somebody using the FaceTime videotelephony software. en Jean Hovey; Stephanie Jones Tidings of Love: 7 Holiday Romance Novellas Crimson Romance 2014 1440594244 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. en Sarah Perez Facebook’s Messenger Kids’ app gains a ‘sleep mode’ w:TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/27/facebooks-messenger-kids-app-gains-a-sleep-mode/ 27 April 2018 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20210419113542/https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/27/facebooks-messenger-kids-app-gains-a-sleep-mode/ en Grant Ramey Hoops Q&A: Getting to know new Vols big man Uros Plavsic w:247Sports https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/LongFormArticle/Tennessee-Vols-Basketball-Uros-Plavsic-136905070/ 13 October 2019 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." https://web.archive.org/web/20260706142403if_/https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/LongFormArticle/Tennessee-Vols-Basketball-Uros-Plavsic-136905070/ en Joan Aguon Charfauros Guam native's YouTube video rallies peers to donate school funds to help those in need KUAM https://www.kuam.com/story/41993844/guam-natives-youtube-video-calls-rallies-peers-to-donate-school-funds-to-help-those-in-need 10 April 2020 "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. 29 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20230907182914/https://www.kuam.com/story/41993844/guam-natives-youtube-video-calls-rallies-peers-to-donate-school-funds-to-help-those-in-need 7 September 2023 en Mike Lauterborn Pandemonium w:AuthorHouse 15 July 2020 978-1-7283-6639-5 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. en Love Belvin Our Reckless Hope MKT Publishing, LLC 4 January 2021 9781950014460 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. en Mary J. Schalla The Day I Left Escaping My Predator FriesenPress 16 June 2021 55 978-1-5255-9819-7 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. en Jill Gutowitz A Supercut of Lesbian Yearning Girls Can Kiss Now Atria Books 8 March 2022 91–92 978-1-9821-5850-7 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!” So Long to America’s Favorite Everymensch 2026-07-01 Will Oremus https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/freddy-world-cup-viral-fan/687771/ 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!” https://web.archive.org/web/20260702012625/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/freddy-world-cup-viral-fan/687771/ en informal ambitransitive To communicate with somebody using any form of video telephony software. Hypernyms en vidcall en vidchat Further reading en Apple Inc.