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A word that will cause the next Civil War over how it's pronounced.

Tony: It's Gif Steve: No it's Jif CIVIL WAR

Gif stands for Graphic Interchange Format. Basically, it’s a short moving picture.

I sent a funny gif to my friend.

A moving picture

See that picture of Winnie the Pooh? That’s a gif

An animated gif is an image that's been encoded using the graphics interchange format where it has multiple frames encoded into a single image file and a web browser or other software will play those images back in animated sequence automatically. ... An animated GIF is a digital version of that.GIF means "Graphics Interchange Format (image type)". The acronym GIF most commonly refers to a short, animated picture without sound.When the GIF was first born in 1987, animation wasn't even in the picture—neither was the World Wide Web. The team of programmers at CompuServe led by Steve Wilhite, the well-known father of the file format, built the GIF around something completely separate from the animation party-trick it's known for today

(GIF /dʒɪf/ JIF or /ɡɪf/ GHIF)

1. Graphics Interchange Format. GIFs are image files that are compressed to reduce transfer time. It can also use multiple images for animated effects (animated GIFs), but has no sound. 2.What all Tumblr people begin to think in at some point in their blogging experience-It's fact.

1."Did you see those sweet Doctor Who GIFs I created? The timing on the dancing monsters' moves was difficult to sync." 2."Because of Tumblr, I keep thinking of real life in GIF responses, and have no way to express them. It's such a pain."

A video about 10 or fewer seconds that repeats and has no sound.

This is an example of a gif :

Short for 'giffer'. means old person, mainly old people driving along motor ways at about 10 mph.

Mum: Honestly! Those stupid gifs!!!! They're taking over! Dad: Now, now, honey. GifFER, not gif.