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| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | A system by which television programmes are transmitted in scrambled form, unintelligible except to those who have paid for descrambling equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A television system in which programs are broadcast in coded form, for reception only by subscribers who make payments for use of the decoding devices. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | Termine internazionale x "televisione a pagamento". E'un sistema di tramsissione televisiva le cui immagini, rese i-nintelligibili da un circuito elettronico, detto scrambler, possono essere captate correttamente usando un apposito ap-parecchio decodificatore(decoder). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Spain | Canal Plus: Launched in 1989 begun broadcasting in 1990. Belongs to Grupo Prisas Sogecable Spain's leading pay-TV operator, pioneer in digital TV and interactive services. (references) |
Hong Kong | Hong Kong's expanding pay-TV market presents some outstanding business opportunities for American companies specializing in the supply of TV broadcasting equipment and expertise, as well as those in TV content production. (references) | |
Hong Kong | In the next six to 18 months, the five new operators will make a total investment of approximately US$90 million to create 149 new pay-TV channels. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PAY-TV" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PAY-TV" is used about 6 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) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PAY-TV"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قناة تلفزيونية بإشتراك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | betalings-TV (pay television, subscription television), abonnements-TV (pay television, subscription television). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | betaal-TV (pay television, subscription television), betaaltelevisie (pay television, subscription television), betaal televisie (pay television, subscription television, toll television), abonneetelevisie (pay television, subscription television). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | télévision payante (pay television), télévision péage (pay television), télévision accès conditionnel (pay television), chaîne de télévision payante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pay-TV (pay television, subscription television), Abonnentenfernsehen (pay television, subscription television, toll television), Abonnementfernsehen (pay television, subscription television), Abo-Kanal (pay television, subscription television). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pay-TV (Pay television), Pay television (Pay television), televisione in abbonamento (pay television, subscription television), televisione a pagamento (pay television, subscription television). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ay-tvpay televisão por assinatura (pay television, subscription television, toll television). (various references) televisión de pago (ptv). (various references) betal-tv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-t-v-y" | |
-1 letter: paty. | |
-2 letters: apt, pat, pay, pya, tap, tav, vat, yap. | |
-3 letters: at, ay, pa, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-t-v-y" | |
+3 letters: pyruvate, vapidity. | |
+4 letters: captivity, depravity, passivity, pivotally, privately, pyruvates. | |
+5 letters: adaptively, adaptivity, adoptively, optatively, polyvalent, putatively, viviparity, voluptuary. | |
| 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. | |
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