televisions

4 definitions • 19 examples

a device shaped like a box with a screen that receives electrical signals and changes them into moving images and sound, or the method or business of sending images and sound by electrical signals:

a 3D/an HD television

Could you turn the television down?

It's one of the few television programmes that I still watch.

Is there anything good on television tonight?

Clare has worked in television since she left college.

Your problem is that you watch too much television.

a large box with a viewing screen which receives electrical signals and changes them into moving pictures and sound:

[ C ] Most homes have televisions.

Television is also the programs that you watch, or the business of broadcasting them:

[ U ] Is there anything interesting on television tonight?

[ U ] Your problem is that you watch too much television.

a system of broadcasting images and sound using electrical signals, and the programmes that are shown:

on (the) television Consumer programmes on the television have enjoyed a rise in popularity.

The ads were first shown on television five years ago.

watch television How much television does the average American watch a week?

It was broadcast on live television.

The company has combined online services with interactive television for the mass market.

digital/satellite/terrestrial television

national/local/network television

television advertising/advertisements/commercials

a television network/channel/station

television audiences/viewers