television
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
Etymology: From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Base: vision
Affixes: tele-
Inflected forms:
form: televisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: televisions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: televisioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: televisioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: televisioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She watched television for over five hours last night.
Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”
gloss: An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I have an old television in the study.
gloss: Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
gloss: Vision at a distance.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.
[…] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country
gloss: To watch television.
pos: verb
tags: informal
neologism
Synonyms: boob tube
cultural barbiturate
electric tit
electronic babysitter
glass teat
goggle box
idiot box
idiot's lantern
magic box
shit box
television set
telly
the box
the tube
TV
zombie box
Related words: televise
televize
televisional
televisionally
televisionary
televisual
Derived words: ambush television
analog television
antitelevision
appointment television
black-and-white television
breakfast television
cable television
cablevision
cellevision
closed-circuit television
color television
colour television
digital television
face for television
guerrilla television
high-definition television
jiggle television
linear television
made-for-television
network television
nontelevision
on television
pay television
pretelevision
public access television
public television
reality television
satellite television
scramblevision
slow television
smellevision
spankavision
standard-definition television
Talmudvision
teleplay
televangelical
televangelism
televangelist
televangelize
televidiot
television black
television channel
televisionese
televisionish
television journalism
televisionless
televisionlike
television match official
television movie
television network
television personality
television program
television programme
television receive-only
television receiver
television series
television show
television star
television station
television stone
television studies
television tube
television white
trash television
TV
web television
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