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# television

«television» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine with a screen that shows programmes with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a television, televisions; television — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A television (TV) is a machine with a screen that shows programmes with pictures and sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#m1)

2) Television is the system of sending programmes and the programmes themselves: watching television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life: watch television, TV programmes. Health: too much screen time is not healthy. Media lessons: adverts on television try to make you buy things. Phrases: "on television", "watch television", "television programme".

### examples

- We watched a film on television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x1)
- Turn off the television, it's bedtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x2)
- Our new television is very big. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x3)
- She was on television for winning a prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x4)
- Don't sit too close to the television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x5)
- Adverts on television want you to buy things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x6)
- Television was invented about a hundred years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/#x7)

### note

Short forms: TV, telly (UK informal). Say "on television", not "in television". Countable for the machine, uncountable for the system or programmes.

### In the corpora

- [US television shows have their own labels, such as TV-Y for young children, TV-PG and TV-14.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/13/)
- [The softer /zhun/ sound is usually spelled -sion: television, division, decision.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/22/)
- [Furniture and televisions that tip over injure many young children every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/29/)
- [The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales helped relay television pictures of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk to the world in 1969.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/27-telescopes-and-light/14/)
- [Satellites are used for weather forecasts, phone calls, television, maps and finding the way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «television» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.