Sentence examples for is gif from inspiring English sources
verb
To create a GIF file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event).
- He GIFed the highlights of the debate
Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud...
The inventor of the gif has gone on record saying that it is "gif" with a soft g.
This year's American champion is gif, short for graphics interchange format: one of the internet's oldest ways of transmitting pictures, it has undergone a viral resurgence in popularity as people rediscover how to post animated versions online.
A common format for compressing static images, especially for display over the Internet, is GIF (graphics interchange format), which is also lossless except that its images are limited to 256 colours.
On the eve on GIS Day, the word of 2012: GIF! Today the Huffington Post announced that the Word of the Year in 2012, according to the Oxford American Dictionaries, is GIF.
The word of the year, according to Oxford Dictionaries, is "gif" — not GIF the image format exactly, but gif the verb: the process of compressing an event or video into a short looping image.
Its every moment is gif-ed and redistributed over thousands of tweets and blogs, and its contestants are turned into minor superstars who command fees of £5,000 to whack on a wig and mime to the hit parade.
Online, there are GIF contests both highbrow and low, and "Best of" GIF roundups.
His SOTU zinger was GIF'd, paired with Beyonce, and reblogged.
Of course, there have long been GIF makers available, either to download or to use online.
(I think it's GIF as in gift).
