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Television   /tˈɛləvˌɪʒən/   Listen
Television

noun
1.
Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.  Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video.  "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done"
2.
A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points.  Synonym: television system.
3.
An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen.  Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set.



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"Television" Quotes from Famous Books



... Phillips. They seemed very far away, something remembered from long ago. Up above the sun was hot. That was real. The rest seemed unimportant. Ahead there was a city. He would walk until he came to it. He tried to think of other things: television, crowds of people, money: the tattered paper and ...
— It Could Be Anything • John Keith Laumer
... chestnut*. narrator &c (describe) 594; newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler. [study of news reporting] journalism. [methods of conveying news] media, news media, the press, the information industry; newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication &c. 531; radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission) . [organizations producing news reports] United Press International, UPI; Associated Press, AP; The Dow Jones News Service, DJ; The New York Times News Service, NYT[abbr]; Reuters [England]; TASS [Soviet Union]; The Nikkei [Japan]. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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