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to teleview

to teleview

7.4
To watch something on television
  • verb
  • /ˈtɛlɪˌvju/
translation icon : ver por televisión
  • Last night, I decided to teleview my favorite documentary about wildlife.

Examples

  • During the holidays, we often teleview classic movies that we loved as children.

  • Many families now prefer to teleview educational programs together to encourage learning.

  • Mothers performed poorly in being "able to set limits on the amount of child televiewing" and "discussing events seen while watching television with the child."

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

to tune in
vsto teleview
100 3.2

Set a radio or TV to a program to follow it

is limited to watching via television signals rather than radio or other broadcasts

Surface Forms

teleview infinitive
televiewed past
televiewed past participle
televiewing present participle
televiews third person singular

Morphology

teleview = view (transparent) = tele + view

This sense is directly compositional: it means viewing something by television transmission.

Etymology

Teleview comes from tele- 'far' and view 'to see', the same idea behind television. So to teleview something is to watch it by television, for example from your home.