Television | Mean of television in English Dictionary

/ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/

• Noun
• an electronic system of sending images and sounds by a wire or through space
1. Do you have satellite or cable television? [=TV]
• a piece of equipment with a screen that receives images and sounds sent by television
1. Can you turn on/off the television? [=TV, (chiefly Brit) telly]
2. Please turn up/down the television. [=make the television louder/quieter]
3. widescreen televisions
• programs that are broadcast by television
1. We don't watch much television. [=TV, (chiefly Brit) telly]
2. a television [=TV] program/show/series

• the television broadcasting industry
1. She works in television.
2. He's a star of stage, screen, and television.
3. a television [=TV] producer/reporter/company
• broadcast by television
1. What is on the television [=on TV, (chiefly Brit) on (the) telly] tonight?
2. There's nothing on television right now. [=there are no programs that I would like to watch now]
3. The movie will be on television next month.
4. I recognize your face. Are you on television? [=do you appear in a television program?]