different between television vs onscreen
television
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)
- (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.
- (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
- I have an old television in the study.
- (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- (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
- 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
Synonyms
Derived terms
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)
- (neologism, informal) To watch television.
Anagrams
- olivenites
Finnish
Noun
television
- genitive singular of televisio
Lombard
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tele?vi?un/
Noun
television
- television
Occitan
Pronunciation
Noun
television f (plural televisions)
- television
Swedish
Etymology
From English television, from tele- +? vision.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /t?l?v???u?n/
Noun
television c
- television
Declension
Related terms
- teve
- tv
television From the web:
- what television channel is the dodger game on
- what television station is thursday night football on
- what television station is monday night football on
- what television channel is monday night football on
- what television channel is the debate on tonight
- what television channel is thursday night football on
- what television station is the world series on
- what television shows are on tonight
onscreen
English
Alternative forms
- on-screen
Etymology
on +? screen
Adjective
onscreen (not comparable)
- As seen on a screen (as of television, film, or computer) rather than in real life.
Adverb
onscreen (not comparable)
- Inside the frame of the cinema, television or computer screen.
- 2010 May 10, Herbert L. Tyson, Word 2010 Bible
- Think of them [task panes] as dialog boxes that enable you to type while they're onscreen.
- 2017 October 27, Todd C. Frankel, “In $25 billion video game industry, voice actors face broken vocal cords and low pay”[1], Washington Post
- And the best voice actors — their names known to fans and promoted by companies — can become celebrities despite never appearing onscreen.
- 2010 May 10, Herbert L. Tyson, Word 2010 Bible
Antonyms
- offscreen
Translations
onscreen From the web:
- on screen display
- what is onscreen code for apple tv
- on screen keyboard
- what is onscreen control
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