Meaning of television | Babel Free

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1. An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
   uncountable
2. An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound
3. An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
   countable
4. The broadcasting of pictures and sound by radio waves or electric cable was invented by John Logie Baird in 1926.
5. An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form
6. Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
   uncountable
7. to send a picture of by television. The football match was televised. beeldsaai يَبُث بالتِّلْفِزْيون предавам/излъчвам по телевизията transmitir por televisão vysílat televizí im Fernseher übertragen vise i tv; sende i fjernsynet μεταδίδω από την τηλεόραση televisar televisiooni teel edastama پخش تلویزیونی کردن televisioida téléviser לשַדֵר בַּטֶלֶבִיזיָה टेलीविजन से प्रसारित करना prenositi televizijom televízión közvetít menayangkan sjónvarpa trasmettere テレビ放映する 텔레비전으로 방송하다 transliuoti per ...
8. Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television
9. Vision at a distance.
   dated, uncountable
10. televisión;___ set → televisor.
11. Vision at a distance
12. An electronic broadcast system in which special providers transmit a continuous program of video content to the public or subscribers by way of antenna, cable, or satellite dish, often on multiple channels: a new sitcom on television.
13. To watch television
14. The industry of producing and broadcasting television programs: made her fortune in television.
15. (Electronics) the system or process of producing on a distant screen a series of transient visible images, usually with an accompanying sound signal. Electrical signals, converted from optical images by a camera tube, are transmitted by UHF or VHF radio waves or by cable and reconverted into optical images by means of a television tube inside a television set
16. (Electronics) Also called: television set a device designed to receive and convert incoming electrical signals into a series of visible images on a screen together with accompanying sound
17. (Broadcasting) the content, etc, of television programmes
18. (Professions) the occupation or profession concerned with any aspect of the broadcasting of television programmes: he's in television.
19. (Broadcasting) (modifier) of, relating to, or used in the transmission or reception of video and audio UHF or VHF radio signals: a television transmitter.
    modifier

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Examples

“She watched the television for over five hours.”

“I have an old television in the study.”

“fifty-seven channels and nothing on television”

“Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.”

“[…] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country”

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