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Definition: Telly |
TellyNoun1. 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. |
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Fine Arts | . . she quite seriously said thanks all the same but she'd rather stay home and watch her favorite soap opera on the --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TellySynonyms: boob tube (n), goggle box (n), idiot box (n), television (n), television receiver (n), television set (n), tv (n), tv set (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | It was my telly! (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Noel's Telly Years (1996) Telly Laughs (1996) Glued to the Telly (1995) | |
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| "Telly" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Telly" is used about 838 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 838 | 8,386 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "telly" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Telly | Last name | 200 | 34,581 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "telly": on the telly. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "telly": telly-ads, telly-don, telly-impressions, telly-owning, telly-presenters, telly-probe, telly-tale, telly-watching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
telly savalas | 81 |
telly award | 43 |
telly tubbies | 22 |
telly | 14 |
telly tubby | 6 |
bravo.co.uk series telly | 4 |
kojak savalas telly | 3 |
picture savalas telly | 2 |
telly tune | 2 |
savales telly | 2 |
discography savalas telly | 2 |
telly tubies | 2 |
kojak telly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "telly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | televizor (boob tube, television set, televisor, tv). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إختصار لتلفزيون. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | телевизор (boob tube, television set, televisor, tube), телевизия (tele, television, video). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "视 (television, TV, TVS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | televisio (television, television set, the box, the telly, TV). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | télé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | röhre (barrel, boob tube, box, cannon bone, cavity, channel, drainage pipe, duct, electron tube, gallery, n., oven, pipe, shank, stem, strip, tube, tubing, valve), mattscheibe (block, depolished glass, diffuser, focusing screen, gogglebox, ground glass, ground glass screen, light diffuser), guckkasten (boob tube, gogglebox), fernseher (television, television receiver, television set, television viewer, televisions, televisionset, televisor, televisors, tv, TV (set), tv set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tv (tv). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | televisione (box, television, tv, watch television). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " 비 (television). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellytay televizor (television set, televisor, TV set), televiziune (t.v., television, TV). (various references) телевизор (boob tube, television set, televisor). (various references) televizor (box, television set, tv). (various references) televisio/n (television), tele (television, television set, televisor, tube, tv). (various references) tv (television, Tuvalu, TV, tv-set, video). (various references) televizyon alıcısı (television set, televisor, tv receiver set), televizyon (boob tube, box, gogglebox, t.v., television, the tube, tv, video). (various references) телевізор (television, televisor, tv). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "telly": tellys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "telly" (pronounced te"lē) |
| 4 | t e" l ē | Tele, Vitelli. |
| 3 | -e" l ē | allele, belly, Celli, deli, jelly, Kelly, Nellie, Nelly, saltarelli, Shelly, smelly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tell, yell. | |
-2 letters: ell, let, ley, lye, tel, tye, yet. | |
-3 letters: el, et, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-t-y" | |
+1 letter: lately, lealty, tellys. | |
+2 letters: alertly, fleetly, flybelt, lithely, outyell, playlet, stalely, trolley. | |
+3 letters: alkylate, allotype, blithely, dentally, dulcetly, elatedly, festally, fluently, flybelts, futilely, latently, latterly, legality, lethally, lobately, loyalest, lucently, lunately, lyrately, mentally, methylal, moltenly, oblately, oldstyle, outyells, phyllite, playlets, politely, potbelly, rectally, retrally, selectly, silently, stellify, sveltely, tallymen, teleplay, tinselly, tomalley, trolleys, velleity, vestally. | |
+4 letters: alkylated, alkylates, allometry, allostery, allotypes, alterably, artillery, artlessly, belatedly, bestially, brittlely, centrally, clemently, collotype, elegantly, enterally, eternally, ethically, exaltedly, fatefully, fertilely, fretfully, fulgently, genitally, genteelly, hatefully, healthily, hostilely, lambently, laterally, lengthily, leniently, lethality, lifestyle, limitedly, lineality, literally, loyalties, meltingly, methylals, neutrally, oldstyles, opulently, outyelled, palmately, pellitory, philately, phyllites, relatedly, reliantly, restfully, saliently, solvently, sterilely, stiltedly, styleless, subtilely, sylleptic, tactilely, tallyhoed, tearfully, teleology, teleplays, telically, tellingly, textually, thermally, tolerably, tomalleys, trolleyed, tunefully, ventrally, violently, wealthily, witlessly, yellowest, zestfully. | |
+5 letters: ablatively, absolutely, affluently, allotypies, arterially, bootlessly, collotypes, completely, costlessly, covalently, cyclostyle, delectably, delicately, desolately, detailedly, diligently, distillery, electively, eloquently, emetically, erotically, ethereally, ethnically, eucalyptol, eventfully, eventually, exotically, explicitly, externally, exultantly, exultingly, flatulency, fleetingly, footlessly, galleryite, gesturally, gratefully, hectically, heliolatry, illatively, illegality, illiteracy, impolitely, indolently, inertially, insolently, integrally, internally, joyfullest, lamentably, lamentedly, legibility, lenitively, lexicality, liberality, lifestyles, listlessly, literality, literarily, literately, luculently, malapertly, materially, maternally, metallurgy, metrically, multilayer, myeloblast, neonatally, obligately, obsoletely, orientally, outyelling, parentally, paternally, petulantly, pitilessly, plangently, pleasantly, poetically, polyvalent, prenatally, redolently, relatively, relevantly, resolutely, restlessly, ruthlessly, salicylate, skeletally, slatternly, societally, spectrally, spitefully, spotlessly, stealthily, sterically, sterlingly, tactlessly, tastefully, teetotally, temporally, tenurially, terminally, texturally, thetically, timelessly, tirelessly, toilsomely, tolerantly, tonelessly, trolleybus, trolleying, tunelessly, typhlosole, ulteriorly, ultimately, vertically, virulently, wastefully, yellowtail. | |
| 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 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471787891 |
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