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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A television set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Qualifier: sometimes non-native speakers' English
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noun
A television set.
A (later partly) mechanical such apparatus, largely superseded during the 1930s by wholly electronic ones; originally and especially, one designed and patented by the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (1888–1936).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, historical
Qualifier: sometimes non-native speakers' English
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noun
One who works in the television industry, e.g., a presenter, broadcaster, or telecaster.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
An organization that makes or broadcasts television programs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Probably partly from televis(ion) + -or, and partly (in sense 2) from televise + -or. Appears to have been coined by the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (1888–1936) in 1926 or earlier. A genericized trademark.
