television

Definition

  • noun: an electronic system of sending images and sounds by a wire or through space
  • noun: an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound
  • synonyms: shit box, tube, plebvision

Examples

  • There's nothing 'on television' right now. [=there are no programs that I would like to watch now]

  • I recognize your face. Are you 'on television'? [=do you appear in a television program?]

  • What is 'on the television' [='on TV', ('chiefly Brit') 'on (the) telly'] tonight?

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) l don't want to play butch boss with you people... but when l took over this department... it had the worst programming record in television history. This network hasn't one show in the top . This network is an industry joke. We better start putting together one winner for next September. (..)
    1976 Network
  • (..) the " Network News" anchorman on UBS TV. ln his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television... the grand old man of news... with a HUT rating of and a audience share. ln , however, his fortunes began to decline. (..)
    1976 Network