television
sustantivoverbocorriente en diálogos
- //ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən//
- //ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən//
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
sustantivo
- 1
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.”
- 2
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.
- 3
Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- 4
anticuadoVision at a distance.
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
Etimología
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
verbo
- 1
informalTo watch television.
Formas
- plural
- televisions
- pasado
- televisioned
- participio
- televisioned
- gerundio
- televisioning
- 3.ª persona del singular
- televisions
television · An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
tell · Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or…Tell · A surname.teller · A person who tells stories.