television
nounEtymology
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
- borrowed from télévision
Definitions
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual…
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- 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.”
An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for…
An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
- I have an old television in the study.
Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
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Vision at a distance.
- […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country
To watch television.
The neighborhood
- synonymboob tube
- synonymcultural barbiturate
- synonymelectric tit
- synonymelectronic babysitter
- synonymglass teat
- synonymgoggle box
- synonymidiot box
- synonymidiot's lantern
- synonymmagic box
- synonymshit box
- synonymtelevision set
- synonymtelly
- neighbortelevise
- neighbortelevize
- neighbortelevisional
- neighbortelevisionally
- neighbortelevisionary
- neighbortelevisual
Derived
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, spankavision, standard-definition television, Talmudvision, teleplay, televangelical, televangelism, televangelist, televangelize, televidiot, television black · +24 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at television. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at television. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at television
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA