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Meanings of television in English
An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen.
Telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images.
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Examples for "tv"
Examples for "tv"
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EBONY: Last question: would you ever go back to reality TV again?
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Do you feel it's possible to find true love on reality TV?
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Mrs MacFie said TV was often an easy choice for busy mothers.
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That's the thing we need to clear up ASAP. TV: 1 p.m.
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You don't really know what to expect going in. TV: 1 p.m.
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She said something about wanting to watch some programme on the telly.
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Will there indeed be any such thing as telly, or indeed music?
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All those action shows on the telly and people being blown up.
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But at least it works on telly, because it's short and snappy.
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Basically, they can all be used on telly without frightening your gran.
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The Soyuzelektropribor television receiver had wobbly legs and loose knobs.
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The march of technology saw ebooks included for the first time in 2013 along with digital television receivers.
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Digital TV will require new television receivers such as set-top digital boxes, which can interface with both traditional and HDTV sets.
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"This is not a photograph, but a television receiver."
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We kept the television set off and simply talked for a while.
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We had a Holocaust before anyone had a television set, he said.
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I just had to go pry him away from his television set.
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Tanya Howe sat motionless before the television set in her living room.
5
She has a television set, a DVD player and a comfortable sofa.
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Topics - How much electricity does your satellite or cable tv set-top box use?
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The previous poster was right; TV sets are the real winner today.
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Everyone make way: Kodak is stepping into the TV set-top box market.
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A quarter of TV sets being sold today have an internet connection.
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The service, called Google TV , will theoretically work with any TV set.
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And of course, it will deliver Google ads via the idiot box.
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Time to bin the zapper and throw out the idiot box.
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I turned off the idiot box and threw open the drapes.
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Were that all Sarandos had achieved, he would have been minor player in the idiot box revolution.
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I'm the idiot box.
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But how to get people to trade their boob tube time for LCD time?
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Clearly, someone's been watching too much of the boob tube.
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Meanwhile, the movie becomes the second big screen-to- boob tube makeover in Lifetime's upcoming slate.
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In the picture, Jessika wore a low-cut white boob tube which flaunted her cleavage.
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I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray: I'm the boob tube.
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Saturday afternoons just ain't the same anymore, especially when Munster are on the old goggle box.
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We sit in front of the goggle box and before we know it the plate is clean.
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Winter sports had overlapped with summer sports, inducing a gluttonous feast of the stuff on the goggle box.
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This church has endured for two thousand years, and it's had harder things to face in that time than the goggle box and the internet.
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She takes a look at the phenomenon that is the UK reality show ' Goggle Box', and revisits the 'Anne of Green Gables' redo 'Anne… Audio
A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points.
Usage of television in English
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The State television service obviously considers violence to be essential Christmas viewing.
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A government spokesman told Libyan television Mr Zeidan was in good health.
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In fact, television irreversibly tipped the balance in favor of the visual.
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Iranian state television said Iran had fired 15 missiles at US targets.
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Egyptian state television said those held included an Egyptian border guard officer.
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Asked about the cast, he said: That's the great thing about television.
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The region is known for strong waves, a state television reporter said.
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She did, however, drop a hint about a possible new television role.
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TV VIEW: A job as a television soccer pundit pays good money.
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Rouhani is to leave on Monday for New York, state television said.
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Russian state television channels have given the unrest large amounts of airtime.
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All those people going talk, talk, talk on television diffuse your focus.
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He will, however, probably be best remembered for his work on television.
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Now, when surfing Dutch television on any given night, reality shows dominate.
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Syrian state television confirmed the army had announced a 48 hour truce.
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For millions of Americans, the war came home every night on television.
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Russian
Television through the time
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