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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun television has 3 senses

• television(n = noun.communication) telecasting, tv, 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"
is a kind of broadcasting
has parts: picture, video, audio, sound
has particulars: cable, cable television, hdtv, high-definition television
Derived form verb televise₁

• television(n = noun.artifact) television system - a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points; Array
has parts: audio, cathode-ray tube, crt, monitor, television equipment, video equipment, boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set, television transmitter
has particulars: cable, cable system, cable television, cable television service, closed-circuit television, color television, color television system, color tv, colour television, colour television system, colour tv, satellite television, satellite tv
is a kind of telecom equipment, telecom system, telecommunication equipment, telecommunication system
Derived form verb televise₁

• television(n = noun.artifact) boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set - an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly"
has parts: kinescope, picture tube, television tube
is a kind of receiver, receiving system
is a part of television, television system

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THESAURUS

television

TV, 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, wire service, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephony, witness, word

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television

News

N news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.

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