television
tele·vi·sion (tel′ə viz̸h′ən)
noun
- the practice or science of transmitting scenes or views by radio or, sometimes, by wire: the television transmitter, by means of a camera tube, such as an image orthicon or vidicon, converts light rays into electric signals for modulation upon a radio carrier wave or for transmission over wires; the television receiver reconverts the signals into electron beams that are projected against the fluorescent screen of the kinescope, or picture tube, reproducing the original image
- broadcasting by television as an industry, entertainment, art, etc.
- all the facilities and related activities of such broadcasting
- a television receiving set
- a television program or programs they watched television last night
adjective
of, using, used in, or sent by television
television
n.
Converse of object
- watch: There are more plus points to be gained by saying you haven't read The Da Vinci Code, rather like never watching television.
Preposition: with
- teletext: To watch subtitles you need a television with Teletext.
Adjective modifier
- terrestrial: Survival School has worked with a vast range of companies on programs which have been shown on cable, satellite and terrestrial television.
- digital: What recent articles do you have about digital television?
- high-definition: Where We Are Today High Definition Television Another one of the technologies available today in America is high-definition television.
- closed: The most common of these are: large print - either enlarged on paper or via a closed circuit television providing screen magnification.
- interactive: These more substantial pieces include one on children's responses to interactive Television.
- British: British television used to be considered to be the best in the world.
Modifies a noun
- presenter: Steve Jones is the criminally attractive Welsh television presenter who certainly has an eye for the ladies.
- series: Based on the popular BBC Schools television series of the same name.
- broadcast: HDTV offers a long awaited update to the standard of television broadcasts.
- documentary: Also the shop has been the subject of a number of television documentaries looking at the clothing industry in London.
- channel: Imagine my surprise when flicking through the local Arabic television channel when a familiar face was starring in a not so shabby music video!
- drama: This is the earliest recollection I have of a really inspired use of the close-up in television drama.
Noun used with modifier
- satellite: BSkyB offers a digital satellite television platform, enabling subscribers to have access to 386 television channels.
- widescreen: This is ideal for viewing photos on a widescreen television.
- cable: Cable television through the way we royal flush or been testing ads.
- plasma: Plasma televisions are a new type of display that uses technology different from other televisions.
- color: All rooms come with the following: Color Television.
- analog: Why is the country being put through the mill of having its analog television switched off?
Most of the animals that appeared on British television screens in1950 did so sitting on door-mats.
Life does not imitate art. It imitates bad television.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Millions drew up before the international hearth of television.
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
Each daya few more lies eat into the seed with whichwe are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Fact is stranger than fiction.You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television.You have to tone it down.
Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
Seldom is it given to one generation to have such an opportunity to rise again, but now before you is that opportunity in televisionöa larger, richer, broader opportunity than ever existed in radio.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commerciallyand financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort oftheliving room.Vietnamwaslost inthe living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Television has brought back murder into the homeö where it belongs.
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.
It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
American people don't believe anything until they see it on television.
When television isgood, nothing isbetter.When it's bad, nothing is worse.
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