television

«television» in Mova's school dictionary: a machine with a screen that shows programmes with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a television, televisions; television — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A television (TV) is a machine with a screen that shows programmes with pictures and sound. tree →

2) Television is the system of sending programmes and the programmes themselves: watching television. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life: watch television, TV programmes. Health: too much screen time is not healthy. Media lessons: adverts on television try to make you buy things. Phrases: "on television", "watch television", "television programme".

examples

• We watched a film on television. tree →
• Turn off the television, it's bedtime. tree →
• Our new television is very big. tree →
• She was on television for winning a prize. tree →
• Don't sit too close to the television. tree →
• Adverts on television want you to buy things. tree →
• Television was invented about a hundred years ago. tree →

note

Short forms: TV, telly (UK informal). Say "on television", not "in television". Countable for the machine, uncountable for the system or programmes.

In the corpora

• US television shows have their own labels, such as TV-Y for young children, TV-PG and TV-14.
• The softer /zhun/ sound is usually spelled -sion: television, division, decision.
• Furniture and televisions that tip over injure many young children every year.
• The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales helped relay television pictures of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk to the world in 1969.
• Satellites are used for weather forecasts, phone calls, television, maps and finding the way.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «television» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.