Definition of Television set

1. Noun. An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen. "The British call a tv set a telly"


Definition of Television set

1. Noun. (dated before 1960) A television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Television Set

television microscope
television monitor
television network
television networks
television news
television newscaster
television personalities
television personality
television pickup tube
television program
television programs
television receiver
television reporter
television room
television series
television set (current term)
television sets
television show
television star
television station
television stations
television system
television transmitter
television tube
televisionary
televisionlike
televisions
televisor
televisors
televisual

Literary usage of Television set

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Kids And Media@the New Millennium: A Comprehensive National Analysis Of by Donald F. Roberts (1999)
"Since kids are the primary (if not sole) video game players in most households, it makes sense to locate the video game system on "their" television set. ..."

2. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"Home shopping turns the television set into a 'virtual shopping mall'. The combination of the set-top box interactivity and home-shopping channels (and ..."

3. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"The television set in which I slept was still intact, and I had awoken as usual ... concern for the resulting metaphysical quandary of my television set, ..."

4. Time and Fateby Lance Price by Lance Price (2005)
"The television set looked out of place in the opulent sitting room of the Foreign Secretary's official residence. During Paul Sinclair's brief tenure in ..."

5. American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 by Clair Brown (1994)
"Although only one-third of households owned a television set in 1950, by 1962, ... In 1954, households with a television set had their sets turned on an ..."

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