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Definition: Tv Set |
Tv SetNoun1. 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: Tv SetSynonyms: boob tube (n), goggle box (n), idiot box (n), television (n), television receiver (n), television set (n), telly (n), tv (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tv Set |
| English words defined with "tv set": boob tube, boom ♦ expertly ♦ gaffer, goggle box ♦ idiot box ♦ like an expert ♦ microphone boom ♦ television, television receiver, television set, telly, TV ♦ with expertise. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I sold the renoir and the TV set (The Reflex; performing artist: Duran Duran) I don't know what you expect starring into the TV set (Burning Down The House; performing artist: Talking Heads) | |
Clever | Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one? (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Around 19.1 million homes have one radio and 16.5 million homes have at least one TV set. (references) | |
There are 1.815 million subscribers to cable TV, representing 11 percent of the homes with at least one TV set. (references) | ||
A 2000 media study showed that an upper-middle class Colombian family has three or more TV sets. This study confirmed that watching TV is the main entertainment for Colombians and that even most low-income families living in urban centers have a TV set in their homes. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "tv set": color tv set ♦ colour tv set. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "tv set"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | televisiestel (television, television set, TV). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جهاز التلفزيون ملون (color tv set, colour tv set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | televisor (television set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fjernsynsapparat (television set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | televisietoestel (television set), televisie (television, television set, TV). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | televidilo (television set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | televyzjetastel (television set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fernsehgerät (television set, televisor, TV (set)), Fernsehapparat (television, television set, tv, TV (set)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | η τηλεόραση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | tvay etsay telewizor (television set). (various references) televisor (television set, televisor). (various references) televizor (television set, televisor, telly). (various references) tv-mottagare, tv-apparat (television set, telly, tube, tv). (various references) umabonwakude (television set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-s-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: sett, stet, test, tets, vest, vets. | |
-2 letters: set, tet, vet. | |
-3 letters: es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-s-t-t-v" | |
+2 letters: stative, trevets, trivets, vastest, vittles. | |
+3 letters: cavettos, cuvettes, estivate, gavottes, navettes, outvotes, statives, sveltest, travesty, vastiest, vedettes, vegetist, vestment, videttes, vitiates. | |
+4 letters: activates, aestivate, anteverts, cavitates, corvettes, devastate, devoutest, estivated, estivates, festivity, levitates, motivates, optatives, overstate, ovotestes, ovotestis, privatest, serviette, tantivies, tipstaves, titivates, vastities, vastitude, vaultiest, vegetates, vegetists, vendettas, veritates, vestments, vetiverts, vignettes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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