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TELEVISE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they televise ... he / she / it televises
Past simple: televised
-ing form: televising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The Royal wedding was televised
Synonyms:
telecast; televise
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "televise" is one way to...):
air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)
Domain category:
telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "televise"):
colorcast (broadcast in color)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
television (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)
television (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)