tv
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- noun
- /tiːˈviː/
:
televisor
- And then my TV was stuck on Spanish TV the entire week.
- watch TV
- TV screen
- TV shows
Then Biden comes on TV and what happens?
- Then Biden comes on TV and what happens?
- Don't turn on the TV in your room please.
- When I watch him on TV, he jumps out of the screen.
- We do that through Facebook ads, radio ads, TV ads, postcards, referrals.
- He's like, hey, tell your dad to turn on the TV, turn it on.
- Like imagine a hotel room TV with a camera behind it.
- From their homes, their peers, their TV's and their internets?
- What does Sony's TV brand Bravia stand for?
- But yeah, Apple TV, though, Apple TV making a strong like push.
- I don't care what you are seeing on the TV, that island is destroyed.
Examples
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After a long day, I like to relax by watching TV in my living room.
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Watch live TV and sports TV without the cable.
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Can I see a picture of the TV or no?
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I see them on TV saying I watch TV all day long.
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Well, for instance... who gets control of the TV if we both wanna watch something different?
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Then Biden comes on TV and what happens?
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Got to turn on the TV and find CNN.
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In the background is a TV, and it is showing a martial arts movie.
Fiction book (1991) -
Don't turn on the TV in your room please.
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Many high school-age students today have never shared a bedroom, a TV, a phone, or a car.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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An electronic device with a screen that receives broadcasts and shows moving pictures and sound
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A machine like a television or radio
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1.4
A machine with a screen that shows moving pictures and sound
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A machine with a screen that shows moving pictures and sound
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A machine like a TV that shows programs
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A television set for watching shows
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A television set people watch to see shows
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A television people jokingly call a waste of time
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A machine that receives TV signals and shows them on a screen
A box in the home used to watch TV
A large screen that shows films or live events in public places
Compounds
- Archaic
A glass bulb inside older televisions that makes the screen show color pictures
- Archaic
An early television that shows red, green and blue in a quick order to make color images
- Archaic
A TV method that sends each picture in red, then green, then blue
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
tv = television (transparent) = t + v
This form is a conventional initialism standing for 'television'; the meaning is directly identical to the base word for learners who know 'television'.
Etymology
Tv is a short form of television, where tele means 'far' (the same tele in telephone) and vision means 'seeing'. So a tv is a machine for 'seeing from far', which is why it brings distant places and stories into your home.