Television Set

Definition: Television Set

Television Set

Noun

1. A receiver that displays television images; "the British call a tv set a telly".

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

Synonyms: Television Set

Crosswords: Television Set

I wonder if I have a television set handy (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

His wife is 45 minutes late getting home, his television set isn't working properly, and he's all out of lunch meat (The Last Episode; writing credit: David Giammarco; Jeff Cowan)

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off. (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod)

So You Want a Television Set (1953)

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

Books

• Market Research Report on China Television Set Industry [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Television Set, Video Tape Recorder & Player Mfg in Taiwan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Business

This technology enables a national network to deliver this type of service, either to a television set with an integrated decoder or direct to desktop computers. (references)

M-Net is testing software that will enable viewers to interact with programs and buy items off the screen with a click of the remote control of their television set. The software, Open TV, allows interactive content to be added to the satellite feeds that currently transmit 41 television channels to more than 300,000 M-Net subscribers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "television set": color television set ♦ colour television set. Additional references.

Afrikaans

televisiestel (television, TV, TV set). (various references)

Albanian

televizor (boob tube, televisor, telly, tv). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جهاز التلفزيون. (various references)

Bulgarian 

телевизор (boob tube, televisor, telly, tube). (various references)

Catalan

televisor (TV set). (various references)

Czech

televizor. (various references)

Danish

fjernsynsapparat (TV set). (various references)

Dutch

televisietoestel (TV set). (various references)

Esperanto

televidilo (TV set). (various references)

Finnish

televisio (television, the box, the telly, TV). (various references)

French

téléviseur (televisor), poste de télévision. (various references)

Frisian

televyzjetastel (TV set). (various references)

German

Fernsehgerät (televisor, TV (set), TV set), Fernsehapparat (television, tv, TV (set), TV set), Fernseher (television, television viewer, televisions, televisor, televisors, telly, tv, TV (set), tv set). (various references)

Greek 

συσκευή τηλεόρασης. (various references)

Hebrew 

טלויזי�" (t.v., television). (various references)

Hungarian

tv készülék. (various references)

Italian

televisore (television), apparecchio televisivo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

テルミット反応 (combination television and video-recorder, facsimile through television, home shopping network, tape recorder, telecast, telecine, telecommunication, teleconference, telecontrol system, teleconverter, telegenic, telegraph, telekinesis, telepathy, telephone club, telescan, telescope, teletex, teletext, Teletopia, teletype, teletypewriter, teletypewriter exchange, television, television camera, television continuity, television game, television network, television rating system, television shopping, television talent, telex, tellurium, terebinthina, thermit reaction, trekking, TV, video game), 受像機 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

テレ�"セット , じゅぞうき. (various references)

Manx

chellveeishan, chellooishan. (various references)

Pig Latin

elevisiontay etsay.(various references)

Polish

telewizor (TV set). (various references)

Portuguese

aparelho de televisão (televisor). (various references)

Romanian

televizor (televisor, telly, TV set). (various references)

Russian 

телевизор (boob tube, televisor, telly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

televizor (box, telly, tv). (various references)

Spanish

televisor (t.v., television, televisor). (various references)

Swedish

tv-apparat (telly, tube, tv, tv set). (various references)

Turkish

televizyon alıcısı (televisor, telly, tv receiver set). (various references)

Zulu

umabonwakude (TV set). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: televisions.

-3 letters: novelettes, olivenites, television, venosities.

-4 letters: enlistees, eventless, lenitives, noisettes, novelette, novelises, novelists, novelties, olivenite, ostensive, selenites, sensitive, seventies, silentest, siltstone, sleetiest, steeliest, teensiest, televises, tensities, teosintes.

-5 letters: elisions, elitists, enlistee, entities, entitles, essonite, evilness, inosites, intitles, invitees, isolines, lenities, lenitive, levities, lintiest, lionises, liveness, noisette, noisiest, noteless, novelise, novelist, oiliness, olivines, osteites.