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Definition: Televise |
TeleviseVerb1. Broadcast via television; "The Royal wedding was televised". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Fine Arts | There is also the possibility that American networks may be able to -- directly to homes via domestic satellites rather than through local stations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TeleviseSynonym: telecast (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Televise |
| Non-English Usage: "Televise" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Samoan (television). |
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Rush Limbaugh | Nobody is going to threaten not to televise the Masters or say it can't be a sanctioned tournament unless they let in women. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Televise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Televise" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 84.62% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
calla televise | 3 |
televise | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "televise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | transmetoj në televizor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تلفز, أرسل باتلفزيون, بث بالتلفزيون. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | излъчвам по телевизията. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "视'送. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vysílat v televizi, přenášet televizí. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | درتلویزیون نشان دادن , برنامه تلویزیونی ترتیب دادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | televisioida. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | téléviser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | durch fernsehsender senden, durch fernsehsender übertragen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βλέπω εικόνεσ διά τηλεόραση, παρουσιάζω τηλεοπτικώσ, εκπέμπω εικόνεσ για τηλεόραση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | televíziós közvetítést ad, közvetít (broadcast, commentate, convey, go between, mediate, relay, to convey, to cover, to interpose, to transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cèdere (devolve, flinch, overtop, to broadcast, transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 방송하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chellveeishey (televising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elevisetay televiza (telecast). (various references) передавать телепрограмму (telecast). (various references) emitovati preko televizije. (various references) televisar (telecast). (various references) televisera. (various references) televizyonda göstermek, yayınlamak (emit, feature, give forth, Herald, issue, print, produce, promulgate, publish, put forth, run, telecast, transmit). (various references) teledu (television, TV). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "televise": televised, televises. (additional references) | |
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"Televise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Telebit, Televideo, teleview, televisie, tileries, twelveish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "televise" (pronounced te"luvī'z) |
| 4 | -u v ī' z | improvise. |
| 3 | -v ī' z | collectivize, supervise. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-l-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: eeliest, evilest, lievest, steelie, velites. | |
-2 letters: elites, evites, levees, levies, listee, livest, sleeve, steeve, svelte, vestee, vilest. | |
-3 letters: elite, elves, evils, evite, islet, istle, leets, levee, lieve, lives, sieve, sleet, steel, stele, stile, teels, teles, tiles, veils. | |
-4 letters: eels, else, eves, evil, isle, lees, leet, leis, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, live, seel, silt, site, slit, teel, tees, tele, tels, ties, tile, tils, vees, veil, vest, vets, vies, vile, vise. | |
-5 letters: eel, els, eve, its, lee, lei, let, lev, lie, lis, lit, see, sei, sel, set, sit, tee, tel, tie, til, tis, vee, vet, vie, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-l-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: cleveites, electives, selective, televiews, televised, televises. | |
+2 letters: expletives, velleities. | |
+3 letters: extensively, heavenliest, interleaves, revilements, secretively, selectively, severalties, shirtsleeve, televiewers, theirselves, unselective. | |
+4 letters: bedevilments, electiveness, nonelectives, nonselective, respectively, shirtsleeved, shirtsleeves, velocimeters. | |
+5 letters: coextensively, eventualities, inveiglements, perspectively, pretelevision, reflexivities, selectiveness, selectivities, televangelism, televangelist, unselectively, veritableness, versatileness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6C 65 76 69 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e l e v i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 0065 0076 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471787188758571 |
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