(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ or ~ set is a piece of electrical equipment consisting of a box with a glass screen on it on which you can watch programmes with pictures and sounds.
She turned the ~ on and flicked around between news programmes.
= TV, telly
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2.
Television is the system of sending pictures and sounds by electrical signals over a distance so that people can receive them on a ~ in their home.
Toy manufacturers began promoting some of their products on ~...
= TV
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3.
Television refers to all the programmes that you can watch.
I don’t have much time to watch very much ~.
= TV
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4.
Television is the business or industry concerned with making programmes and broadcasting them on ~.
British commercial ~ has been steadily losing its lead as the most advanced sector of the industry in Europe.
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