Newspaper vs Television - What's the difference?
newspaper | television |
(countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 (uncountable, countable) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
To cover with newspaper.
(transitive) To engage in the business of journalism (usually used only in the gerund, newspapering)
(obsolete) to harrass in newspaper articles.
(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
In countable terms the difference between newspaper and television
is that newspaper is a publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles while television is a device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.newspaper
English
(wikipedia newspaper)Noun
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers ?}}
Synonyms
* (publication) daily (for a daily newspaper''), paper, rag (''derogatory ) * (paper on which newspapers are printed) newsprintDerived terms
* newspaperdom * newspaperismVerb
(en verb)- She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
- He newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towms.
- He was newspapered out of public life.
Usage notes
* The harrass sense is usually in passive constructions. 1000 English basic wordstelevision
English
(wikipedia television)Noun
- It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
- I have an old television in the study.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television