different between television vs informercial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French télévision; tele- +? vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

1. (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

   It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.

2. (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.

   I have an old television in the study.

3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

   fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

4. (uncountable) Vision at a distance.
   • 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:

     the magic mirror … which furnished him television of his family and country

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Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (terebijon)
• ? Maltese: televixin
• ? Swahili: televisheni

Translations

Verb

television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)

1. (neologism, informal) To watch television.

Anagrams

• olivenites

Finnish

Noun

television

1. genitive singular of televisio

Lombard

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tele?vi?un/

Noun

television

1. television

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

television f (plural televisions)

1. television

Swedish

Etymology

From English television, from tele- +? vision.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t?l?v???u?n/

Noun

television c

1. television

Declension

Related terms

• teve
• tv

English

Noun

informercial (plural informercials)

1. Alternative spelling of infomercial.