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# tv

«tv» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine with a screen that shows programmes, films and…** — 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 (TV, TVs; also television, telly in the UK)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) TV also means the programmes that are shown: watching TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#m2)

3) TV can mean the business of making these programmes: she works in TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children watch TV shows, cartoons and sport; families set rules about screen time. In safety lessons: don't climb on furniture holding a TV, because big TVs can tip over, and TVs should be fixed to the wall. In stories a character may see news on TV. In science a TV screen makes pictures from tiny dots of light (pixels). Phrases: watch TV, on TV, turn on the TV, TV show, TV channel, screen time.

### examples

- We watched a nature programme on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x1)
- Can I watch TV after my homework? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x2)
- Turn off the TV; it's time for bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x3)
- My favourite TV show is about animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x4)
- The heavy TV was fixed to the wall so it couldn't fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x5)
- Grandma calls it the telly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x6)
- Too much TV before bed can make it hard to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x7)
- The football match is on TV tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tv/#x8)

### note

Usually written in capital letters: TV (short for television). Plural: TVs. Say «on TV» (on the TV is also used for the machine). «Telly» is informal British and Irish English. Things on TV, including adverts, are not always true.

### In the corpora

- [Young famous people, like teenage TV actors, deserve even more privacy, because they are still children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/20/)
- [One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/10/)
- [The news on TV, the radio and phones shows real things: wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and accidents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/0/)
- [A lot of it is guessing, and the famous person did not choose to have it on TV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/2/)
- [Arguments on TV get people watching, so some are allowed or even planned; that does not make shouting a good idea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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