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Meaning television meaning

What does television mean?
Definitions in simple English

television

A television is a box that moving pictures can be watched on.

television

(= video) 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 a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points (= tv, tv set, telly) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen the British call a tv set a telly

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Topics television topics

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Simple sentences

Turn off the television. I can't concentrate.
Please turn the television on.
The television doesn't work.
The television serial is getting more and more interesting.
The President is to speak on television this evening.
I appeared on television once, but I never knew which channel I was on.
My mother hates watching the television.
They're on television.
I was walking the dog while my wife was watching television.
They decided that they would stop watching television completely.
They decided to stop watching television completely.
The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.
Do you know how high the television tower is?
I make it a rule not to watch television after nine o'clock.
We have two television sets.
It's about time you stopped watching television.
Bill turned on the television.
What a small television set! Does it really work?
Tom was asked to appear on television.
Please turn on the television.
My hobbies are fishing and watching television.
As I entered a tearoom, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.
Having nothing to do, I watched television.
The radio gave place to television.
There's nothing to do, so I may as well watch television.
Tom is always watching television.

Movie subtitles

Television transmissions have been travelling away from the earth for about 50 years.
These radio, radar, and television signals fill a sphere nearly 1 00 light years in diameter, so any civilisation within 1 00 light years of Earth might be hearing our voices or watching our television shows.
Your next move, it seems to me, should be towards television.
Do they have auditions for television?
That's all television is, my dear.
I want to take this opportunity of thanking you people of the television audience for the hundreds of letters and telegrams that have been pouring in.
Like a television camera.
Live from television city in Hollywood.
No, television, for my sins.
Then that great actress, turns out all she does is commercials on television for an underarm deodorant!
We interrupt all radio and television programs indefinitely.
Keep your radio and television sets turned on.
They showed the pictures on television.
It isn't television, thank heaven. They only hear his liquid voice.
Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
That's all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.
You'll get it over your radio and see it on television. Because an old-time star is involved. One of the biggest.
With television, we'd have cinema in the house.
You're stealing dialogue from television.
And two ministers, television and radio.
All she does is commercials on television for an underarm deodorant.
Yeah, on this television while you were talking.
And get all newsreel and television coverage started right away.
He's been watching too much television.
Thankfully we've got television.
Television?
I hardly recognized him when I saw him on television.
Radio, television, automobile, airplane, atomic fission, jet propulsion.
Last night on the television they blood come out of a guy's ear.
You've been sitting in front of that television set ever since yesterday afternoon.
I'm gonna get a television set.
You should at least get a television set.

News and current affairs

Gates might even be planning a television documentary on racial profiling.
Should we outlaw air conditioning or television satellite boxes because some people find them luxurious?
Sometimes, when there is electricity, I watch television and see how people live in other places.
At the same time, the war left enormous pent-up demand for the products of mass production: cars, washing machines, refrigerators, lawn mowers, television sets, and more.
So I appeal to all of you working for newspapers, radio, and television stations outside the United States: it is to you that we - including those of us in America - must look to discover what our own government is doing.
Television has reshaped society in every corner of the world.
The best evidence suggests that Americans watch more than five hours per day of television on average - a staggering amount, given that several hours more are spent in front of other video-streaming devices.
Of course, many other factors are at work, but television-driven social atomization should not be understated.
Television and related media have been the greatest purveyors and conveyors of corporate and political propaganda in society.
The Bush administration promoted the premises of the Iraq war - Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction -in the familiar colorful, fast-paced, and graphics-heavy style of television advertising.
Children in poor American households today not only watch more TV than children in wealthy households, but are also more likely to have a television in their room.
Today's Kremlin, however, is full of clever ideas about how to control and intimidate newspapers, radio, and television.
Each came with their own programs, their own civil-society organizations, and their own television crews.
Look at our television programs.
That is more than the usual viewership for ESPN's Monday Night Football, the biggest regular television draw for fans of American football.
But US television showed an enormous crowd of fans in Kansas City following the US-Belgium match on a large outdoor screen.
Their leader outshines his Conservative and Labour counterparts in television debates and on the campaign trail.
Even in Washington, where I arrived at the beginning of the tournament, I was greeted at the airport by television screens showing the game.
Embassies have issued warnings to tourists and their citizens living in France; television news programs have shown hours of footage of burning cars.
The very moment he appears on the world's television screens, victorious and smiling, America's image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.
One of the most seductive of these pleasures - and thus one of the most dangerous - is television.

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