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Mv vs Ktv - What's the difference?

mv | ktv |

As an abbreviation mv

is (computing) a unix command to move a file.

As a noun ktv is

(lb) karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment.

As a proper noun ktv is

kondatam television (a popular tamil tv channel).

mv

Translingual

Alternative forms

* (roman numeral) mv, MIIIII, miiiii

Symbol

(head)
  • The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Maldives.

    • Symbol

    (head)
  • A Roman numeral representing one thousand and five ().

    • See also

    * Previous: MIV (one thousand and four, ) * Next: MVI (one thousand and six, ) ISO 3166-1 Roman numerals ----

    ktv

    English

    Etymology 1

    Late 1980s Taiwan Pseudo-English initialism for "karaoke television" modelled after the earlier MTV "movie television", which were places people would pay to watch movies on VCR or lazerdisk in private booths. This term is chiefly used in China, Taiwan and Cambodia and by people of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.

    Noun

  • (lb) karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment
  • * Avron Boretz, Carousing and Masculinity: The Cultural Production of Gender in Taiwan'' in 2004 , Catherine Farris, Anru Lee, Murray Rubinstein, ''Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society , East Gate, page 179:
    • Most KTV clubs in Taiwan have since followed a single architectural formula:
  • * Tsen Wang, DEMO Exegesis: Virtual Songs'' in 2006 , Kevin K. W. Wong ''et al.'', ''Proceedings of Third Australasian Conference of Interactice Entertainment , Murdoch University, page 34:
    • They are enshrined an worshiped on the table as ‘holy scripture’ for KTV devotees.
  • * 2010 , Marc L. Moskowitz, Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations , University of Hawai?i Press, page 10:
    • As opposed to karaoke’s open venues, such as bars, KTV' is enclosed in a private room and features microphones and a large television screen which includes the lyrics and features the music videos or, in the case of most Western songs, a low-budget video filmed especially for ' KTV .
  • (lb) (karaoke box), a karaoke entertainment establishment
  • * 2009 , James Udden, No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien , Hong Kong University Press, page 139:
    • The longest take of the film, where the underwold and political figures decide the case of Flatty and Kao in the shadowy interstices of a KTV ,
  • * 2012 , Peter Martel, Gator Tango and the Higgs Boson , Strategic Book Publshing and Rights, page 67:
    • “Anyway, in order to take my mind off of the problem, my wife suggested we go to a KTV ,” Su said.
  • * Brian Hu, Love in the Club: Karaoke Realism in Chinese and Hong Kong Cinema'' in 2014 , David Laderman, Laurel Westrup, ''Sampling Media , Oxford University Press, page 135:
    • The KTV is an apt place to begin an investigation into such phenomena,

    Etymology 2

    From K'ondatam ' TV .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Kondatam Television (a popular Tamil TV channel)

    • References

  • Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing edited by Shuhei Hosokawa. 1998. Page 175
  • Consumption in Asia: Lifestyle and Identities edited by Beng-Huat Chua. 2000. Page 174