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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

  • (..) - I don't know, but Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stock market. Miss Kyle? So, that's what that feels like. I see from the television coverage that you got your taste for wanton destruction back. I retrieved this. Aren't the police supposed to be investigating, then? (..)
    2012 The Dark Knight Rises