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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

  • (..) - Oh, little TV for history. - Love Boat? - For history. Navy. That's not the Navy. I mean, he could watch television at home. We're paying you $ a month. If he's gonna be sitting around... ...watching TV all day, we're taking him out of here. Go pay more at other daycare (..)
    2006 The Pursuit of Happyness