Television vs Telescreen - What's the difference?
television | telescreen |
(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.
(science fiction) A screen for broadcasting television or similar media.
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As nouns the difference between television and telescreen
is that television is an electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound while telescreen is a screen for broadcasting television or similar media.As a verb television
is to watch television.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 ----telescreen
English
(wikipedia telescreen)Noun
(en noun)- Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens , had seen his unpardonable arrogance.
- She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen , quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.
