different between television vs offscreen

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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Related terms

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

Alternative forms

• off-screen

Etymology

off +? screen

Adjective

offscreen (not comparable)

1. Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen

Translations

Adverb

offscreen (not comparable)

1. Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen

Antonyms

• onscreen

See also

• offstage