television

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound. uncountable
    — She watched television for over five hours last night.
  2. An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form. countable
    — I have an old television in the study.
  3. Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television. uncountable
    — fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
  4. Vision at a distance. dated,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To watch television. informal,neologism

词形变化

televisions plural televisions present,singular,third-person televisioning participle,present televisioned participle,past televisioned past

词源

词源 1
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
词源 2
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
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