different between television vs upstage

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

Etymology

up- +? stage. The figurative uses “haughty” and “to draw attention away” derive from actors moving to a higher and thus more visible position on a sloped stage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ste?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

upstage (uncountable)

1. (theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.

   Coordinate terms: center stage, downstage, stage left, stage right

Adverb

upstage (comparative more upstage, superlative most upstage)

1. Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.

2. Away from the audience or camera.

Adjective

upstage (comparative more upstage, superlative most upstage)

1. At the rear of a stage.

2. (figuratively, obsolete) Haughty, aloof.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:arrogant

Verb

upstage (third-person singular simple present upstages, present participle upstaging, simple past and past participle upstaged)

1. (figuratively, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.

   Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow
2. (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
3. (transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
4. (medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.

   Antonym: downstage

Translations

Further reading

• rake (theatre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “upstage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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