Television vs Overcover - What's the difference?
television | overcover |
(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.
To cover over.
To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 3, author=Nicholas Kristof, title=Bright Continent, work=New York Times
, passage=You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much. }}
As verbs the difference between television and overcover
is that television is to watch television while overcover is to cover over.As a noun television
is an electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.television
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
Derived terms
(television) * cable television * on television * televangelism * televangelist * television channel * television network * television station * TVSynonyms
(television) * boob tube * cultural barbiturate * electronic babysitter * glass teat * goggle box * idiot box * plebvision * the shit box * television set * telly * the tube * TVAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----overcover
English
Verb
(en verb)- The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
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