'television' definitions:
Definition of 'television'
(from WordNet)
noun
Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs [syn: television, telecasting, TV, video]
noun
A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points [syn: television, television system]
noun
An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly" [syn: television receiver, television, television set, tv, tv set, idiot box, boob tube, telly, goggle box]
Definition of 'television'
From: GCIDE
- electronic device \electronic device\ n. a device depending on the principles of electronics and using the manipulation of electron flow for its operation. [PJC]
- Note: Numerous electronic devices are in daily use, among them the television, radio, computer, robot, transmitter, receiver, VCR, CD player, etc. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'television'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advice,
- adviser,
- announcer,
- annunciator,
- authority,
- automation,
- avionics,
- box,
- broadcast journalism,
- channel,
- communicant,
- communicator,
- electron microscopy,
- electron optics,
- electron physics,
- electronic engineering,
- electronics,
- electrophysics,
- enlightener,
- expert witness,
- gossipmonger,
- grapevine,
- informant,
- information,
- information center,
- information medium,
- informer,
- intelligence,
- interviewee,
- journalism,
- line radio,
- monitor,
- mouthpiece,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newsmonger,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- notifier,
- photoelectricity,
- press,
- press association,
- public relations officer,
- publisher,
- radar,
- radio,
- radionics,
- radiophotography,
- radiotelegraphy,
- radiotelephony,
- reportage,
- reporter,
- source,
- spokesman,
- telegraph agency,
- teller,
- telly,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- tipster,
- tout,
- transistor physics,
- tube,
- TV,
- wire service,
- wire wave communication,
- wired radio,
- wired wireless,
- wireless,
- wireless telegraphy,
- wireless telephony,
- witness,
- word
Words containing 'television'
- televise,
- cable television,
- color television,
- colour television,
- satellite television,
- television announcer,
- television antenna,
- television camera,
- television channel,
- television equipment,
- television monitor,
- television news,
- television newscaster,
- television program,
- television receiver,
- television reporter,
- television room,
- television set,
- television show,
- television star,
- television station,
- television system,
- television transmitter,
- television tube,
- cable television service,
- color television system,
- color television tube,
- colour television system,
- colour television tube,
- television pickup tube,
- tricolor television tube,
- tricolour television tube,
- academy of television arts and sciences,
- closed-circuit television,
- high-definition television,
- television-camera tube,
- field-sequential color television,
- field-sequential color television system