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Televise

Definition: Televise

Televise

Verb

1. Broadcast via television; "The Royal wedding was televised".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Televise

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonym: Televise

Synonym: telecast (v). (additional references)

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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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Commercial Usage: Televise

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Televise

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

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Usage Frequency: Televise

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)84.62%11106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)15.38%2245,945
                    Total100.00%13N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Televise

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

calla televise

3

televise

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Televise

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

   

Romanian

  

televiza (telecast). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

передавать телепрограмму (telecast). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

emitovati preko televizije. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

televisar (telecast). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

televisera. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

televizyonda göstermek, yayınlamak (emit, feature, give forth, Herald, issue, print, produce, promulgate, publish, put forth, run, telecast, transmit). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

teledu (television, TV). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Televise

Derivations

Words beginning with "televise": televised, televises. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Televise"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "televise" (pronounced te"luvī'z)
4-u v ī' zimprovise.
3-v ī' zcollectivize, supervise.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Televise

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Televise


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6C 65 76 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006C 0065 0076 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5471787188758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Spoken
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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