bloop

en-verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

bloops (present singular third-person)
blooping (participle present)
blooped (participle past)
blooped (past)

onom

Imitative

Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.

1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96:

(television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.


spud

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable^([sic])) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]

1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film, page 299:

(film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.


fill

en-noun

fill (countable and uncountable, plural fills)

From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.

(film, television) Short for fill light.


nodder

(television) Synonym of noddy (“cutaway scene of an interviewer nodding”)


loge

→ German: Loge

→ Dutch: loge

→ Macedonian: ложа (loža)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: losje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: losje

→ Polish: loża

→ Russian: ло́жа (lóža)

→ Persian: لژ (lož)

→ Swedish: loge

→ Ukrainian: ло́жа (lóža)

Inherited from Middle French loge, from Old French loge, borrowed from Frankish *laubijā, from Proto-West Germanic *laub + *-jō. The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

etymon

(theater, television) dressing room (a room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup)


mire

Borrowed from Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“to wonder at”).


elimination

en-noun

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

(television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.


brute

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).

der

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For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]

1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191:

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

(film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.


banner

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.


scene

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.

The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.

The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.

There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

(theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.

տեսարան

(theater, film, television, radio) part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time


vestige

From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”).

[J]ust a trace, or vestige, of the other sideband is included. In the receiver detection circuitry the vestige of the lower sideband is added to the upper sideband.

2003, Tarmo Anttalainen, Introduction to Telecommunications Network Engineering, page 133:

(television, radio) The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.


Star Wars

[ˈstɑɹ ˈwɔɹz]

[ˈstɑ˞ ˈwɔɹz]

From the original name of the science fantasy motion picture Star Wars (1977).

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative

(informal, military) The United States Strategic Defense Initiative.


Wookiee

What's this guy tryinna [sic] disappear behind you, a Wookie? [sic]

1985, Stephen King, Peter Straub, The Talisman, page 341:

I backed it out to the dirt road, and the door to the double-wide opened and a big guy, more Wookiee than human being, filled the doorway.

2009, Janet Evanovich, Plum Spooky, page 98:

Kevin whined, his Wookiee face showing hurt somewhere beneath the dark glasses.

2009, Jaqueline Girdner, Murder, My Deer, page 115:

A member of a fictional race of tall, hairy bipeds in the universe of the Star Wars motion pictures.


Mickey Mouse

→ Albanian: Miushi Miki (calque)

desc

مِيكِي مَاوْس

→ Arabic: مِيكِي مَاوْس (mīkī māws)

→ Arabic: مِيكِي مَاوْس (mīkī māws)

→ Azerbaijani: Mikki Maus

→ Bulgarian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)

→ Czech: Mickey Mouse

→ Danish: Mickey Mouse

→ Dutch: Mickey Mouse

→ French: Mickey Mouse

→ Georgian: მიკი მაუსი (miḳi mausi)

→ German: Micky Maus (calque)

→ Greek: Μίκυ Μάους (Míky Máous), μικιμάους (mikimáous)

→ Hebrew: מיקי מאוס (miki maus)

→ Hindi: मिकी माउस (mikī māus)

→ Japanese: ミッキーマウス (Mikkī Mausu)

→ Korean: 미키 마우스 (Miki Mauseu)

→ Macedonian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)

→ Portuguese: Mickey Mouse

→ Romanian: Mickey Mouse, Miki Maus

Ми́кки Ма́ус

→ Russian: Ми́кки Ма́ус (Míkki Máus)

→ Samoan: Miki Mausi

→ Spanish: Mickey Mouse

มิกกี้ เมาส์

→ Thai: มิกกี้ เมาส์

→ Thai: มิกกี้ เมาส์

From Mickey, a diminutive of the given name Michael, + mouse, referring to the species of the character. The name Mickey Mouse was coined by American animator Walt Disney in 1928 after his wife, Lillian Disney, persuaded him to change the character's original name Mortimer Mouse to Mickey, deeming the former too formal for the playful character. "Mickey" was suggested by Lillian, who preferred its more approachable and lively sound.
The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low-quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.

The most famous Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic mouse with a falsetto voice and a cheerful disposition.


Mickey Mouse

1949, from English Mickey Mouse, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.

(cartoon) Mickey Mouse (One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic mouse who usually wears red shorts and is known for circular ears.)


Mickey Mouse

Unadapted borrowing from English Mickey Mouse.


vô tuyến truyền hình

[vo˧˧ twiən˧˦ t͡ɕwiən˨˩ hïŋ˨˩]

[vow˧˧ twiəŋ˦˧˥ ʈwiəŋ˦˩ hɨn˦˩]

[vow˧˧ t⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˦˥ ʈ⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩ hɨn˨˩]

[jow˧˧ t⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˦˥ ʈ⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩ hɨn˨˩]

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Penn Zero MSSJ-vô tuyến truyền hình.wav

Sino-Vietnamese word from 無線傳形, composed of 無線 (“wireless”) and 傳形 (“television”).


infomercial

/ˈɪnfəˌmɜːʃəl/

/ˈɪnfəˌmɝʃəl/

Dionne and I were both named after great singers of the past who now do infomercials.

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):

A program-length television commercial, typically between thirty minutes and one hour long, that advertises a product or service by presenting supposedly impartial information about it.


variety

en-noun

variety (countable and uncountable, plural varieties)

From Middle French varieté (“variety”) (modern French variété (“variety; genre, type”)) or directly from its etymon Latin varietās (“difference; diversity, variety”) + English -ty (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives). Varietās is derived from varius (“different, diverse, various; variegated”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to abandon; to give out; to leave”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). The English word displaced the native Old English mislīcnes.
Sense 1.3.2 (“total number of distinct states of a system; logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system”) was coined by the English psychiatrist William Ross Ashby (1903–1972) in his work An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956).
cognates
* Galician variedade (“variety”)
* Italian varietà (“difference; variety”)
* Portuguese variedade (“variety”)
* Spanish variedad (“breed; variety”)

der

(radio, television, theater) Ellipsis of variety performance. or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).

variety performance
variety performance#English

variety performance

(radio, television, theater) The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.


prompt

en-verb

prompt (third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted)

prompts (present singular third-person)
prompting (participle present)
prompted (participle past)
prompted (past)

From French prompt, from Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”).

der

If he forgets his words I will prompt him.

(transitive, theater and television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

sufloj

to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing


televisio

televisio (nominative singular)
televisiot (nominative plural)
televisio (accusative nominative singular)
televisiot (accusative nominative plural)
television (accusative genitive singular)
televisiot (accusative genitive plural)
television (genitive singular)
televisioiden (genitive plural)
televisioitten (genitive plural)
televisiota (partitive singular)
televisioita (partitive plural)
televisiossa (inessive singular)
televisioissa (inessive plural)
televisiosta (elative singular)
televisioista (elative plural)
televisioon (illative singular)
televisioihin (illative plural)
televisiolla (adessive singular)
televisioilla (adessive plural)
televisiolta (ablative singular)
televisioilta (ablative plural)
televisiolle (allative singular)
televisioille (allative plural)
televisiona (essive singular)
televisioina (essive plural)
televisioksi (singular translative)
televisioiksi (plural translative)
televisiotta (abessive singular)
televisioitta (abessive plural)
televisioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
televisioni (nominative singular)
televisioni (nominative plural)
televisioni (accusative nominative singular)
televisioni (accusative nominative plural)
televisioni (accusative genitive singular)
televisioni (accusative genitive plural)
televisioni (genitive singular)
televisioideni (genitive plural)
televisioitteni (genitive plural)
televisiotani (partitive singular)
televisioitani (partitive plural)
televisiossani (inessive singular)
televisioissani (inessive plural)
televisiostani (elative singular)
televisioistani (elative plural)
televisiooni (illative singular)
televisioihini (illative plural)
televisiollani (adessive singular)
televisioillani (adessive plural)
televisioltani (ablative singular)
televisioiltani (ablative plural)
televisiolleni (allative singular)
televisioilleni (allative plural)
televisionani (essive singular)
televisioinani (essive plural)
televisiokseni (singular translative)
televisioikseni (plural translative)
televisiottani (abessive singular)
televisioittani (abessive plural)
televisioineni (comitative plural)
televisiosi (nominative singular)
televisiosi (nominative plural)
televisiosi (accusative nominative singular)
televisiosi (accusative nominative plural)
televisiosi (accusative genitive singular)
televisiosi (accusative genitive plural)
televisiosi (genitive singular)
televisioidesi (genitive plural)
televisioittesi (genitive plural)
televisiotasi (partitive singular)
televisioitasi (partitive plural)
televisiossasi (inessive singular)
televisioissasi (inessive plural)
televisiostasi (elative singular)
televisioistasi (elative plural)
televisioosi (illative singular)
televisioihisi (illative plural)
televisiollasi (adessive singular)
televisioillasi (adessive plural)
televisioltasi (ablative singular)
televisioiltasi (ablative plural)
televisiollesi (allative singular)
televisioillesi (allative plural)
televisionasi (essive singular)
televisioinasi (essive plural)
televisioksesi (singular translative)
televisioiksesi (plural translative)
televisiottasi (abessive singular)
televisioittasi (abessive plural)
televisioinesi (comitative plural)
televisiomme (nominative singular)
televisiomme (nominative plural)
televisiomme (accusative nominative singular)
televisiomme (accusative nominative plural)
televisiomme (accusative genitive singular)
televisiomme (accusative genitive plural)
televisiomme (genitive singular)
televisioidemme (genitive plural)
televisioittemme (genitive plural)
televisiotamme (partitive singular)
televisioitamme (partitive plural)
televisiossamme (inessive singular)
televisioissamme (inessive plural)
televisiostamme (elative singular)
televisioistamme (elative plural)
televisioomme (illative singular)
televisioihimme (illative plural)
televisiollamme (adessive singular)
televisioillamme (adessive plural)
televisioltamme (ablative singular)
televisioiltamme (ablative plural)
televisiollemme (allative singular)
televisioillemme (allative plural)
televisionamme (essive singular)
televisioinamme (essive plural)
televisioksemme (singular translative)
televisioiksemme (plural translative)
televisiottamme (abessive singular)
televisioittamme (abessive plural)
televisioinemme (comitative plural)
televisionne (nominative singular)
televisionne (nominative plural)
televisionne (accusative nominative singular)
televisionne (accusative nominative plural)
televisionne (accusative genitive singular)
televisionne (accusative genitive plural)
televisionne (genitive singular)
televisioidenne (genitive plural)
televisioittenne (genitive plural)
televisiotanne (partitive singular)
televisioitanne (partitive plural)
televisiossanne (inessive singular)
televisioissanne (inessive plural)
televisiostanne (elative singular)
televisioistanne (elative plural)
televisioonne (illative singular)
televisioihinne (illative plural)
televisiollanne (adessive singular)
televisioillanne (adessive plural)
televisioltanne (ablative singular)
televisioiltanne (ablative plural)
televisiollenne (allative singular)
televisioillenne (allative plural)
televisionanne (essive singular)
televisioinanne (essive plural)
televisioksenne (singular translative)
televisioiksenne (plural translative)
televisiottanne (abessive singular)
televisioittanne (abessive plural)
televisioinenne (comitative plural)
televisionsa (nominative singular)
televisionsa (nominative plural)
televisionsa (accusative nominative singular)
televisionsa (accusative nominative plural)
televisionsa (accusative genitive singular)
televisionsa (accusative genitive plural)
televisionsa (genitive singular)
televisioidensa (genitive plural)
televisioittensa (genitive plural)
televisiotaan (partitive singular)
televisiotansa (partitive singular)
televisioitaan (partitive plural)
televisioitansa (partitive plural)
televisiossaan (inessive singular)
televisiossansa (inessive singular)
televisioissaan (inessive plural)
televisioissansa (inessive plural)
televisiostaan (elative singular)
televisiostansa (elative singular)
televisioistaan (elative plural)
televisioistansa (elative plural)
televisioonsa (illative singular)
televisioihinsa (illative plural)
televisiollaan (adessive singular)
televisiollansa (adessive singular)
televisioillaan (adessive plural)
televisioillansa (adessive plural)
televisioltaan (ablative singular)
televisioltansa (ablative singular)
televisioiltaan (ablative plural)
televisioiltansa (ablative plural)
televisiolleen (allative singular)
televisiollensa (allative singular)
televisioilleen (allative plural)
televisioillensa (allative plural)
televisionaan (essive singular)
televisionansa (essive singular)
televisioinaan (essive plural)
televisioinansa (essive plural)
televisiokseen (singular translative)
televisioksensa (singular translative)
televisioikseen (plural translative)
televisioiksensa (plural translative)
televisiottaan (abessive singular)
televisiottansa (abessive singular)
televisioittaan (abessive plural)
televisioittansa (abessive plural)
televisioineen (comitative plural)
televisioinensa (comitative plural)

tele- + visio; adapted form of French télévision.


televisio

la-noun

tēlevīsiō f (genitive tēlevīsiōnis); third declension

tēlevīsiō (canonical feminine)
tēlevīsiōnis (genitive)
tēlevīsiō (nominative singular)
tēlevīsiōnēs (nominative plural)
tēlevīsiōnis (genitive singular)
tēlevīsiōnum (genitive plural)
tēlevīsiōnī (dative singular)
tēlevīsiōnibus (dative plural)
tēlevīsiōnem (accusative singular)
tēlevīsiōnēs (accusative plural)
tēlevīsiōne (ablative singular)
tēlevīsiōnibus (ablative plural)
tēlevīsiō (singular vocative)
tēlevīsiōnēs (plural vocative)

(Contemporary Latin) television (medium)

1957, Pope Pius XII, Miranda Prorsus https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/la/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_08091957_miranda-prorsus.pdf, Vatican (Litterae Encyclicae)

Many have a television, since its shows provide to the eyes, with ordinary cinematographic art, the very action and activity of life.

Televisioni plura sunt; cum cinematographica arte communia, quandoquidem eius spectationes ipsam vitae actionem agitationemque oculis exhibent.

(Contemporary Latin) television (device)


rock and roll

/ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/

From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was a euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.

The dubbing theatre is a viewing theatre equipped for running the picture with a great many tracks interlocked to run synchronously. Once laced up, they can be run forwards or backwards remaining in synch; when it was first introduced this system was given the name 'rock and roll'.

2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 56:

It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take. If you need to stop for some reason — the performance isn't quite right, there's a rustle of papers, etc — you can always go back on the recording and pick it up from the point at which it went wrong. This is known as rock and roll.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 196:

An alternative method is the use of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), which consists basically of a high speed rock and roll dubbing system and a programmable locating device.

2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book, pages 38–7:

(film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.


feuilleton

→ English: feuilleton

→ German: Feuilleton

→ Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone

→ Swedish: följetong

→ Danish: føljeton


Xena

Possibly a variant of Xenia, from Latin Xenia, from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”), the assumed name of a fifth-century saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

der

A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage.


meh

en-adj

meh (comparative more meh, superlative most meh)

more meh (comparative)
most meh (superlative)

Popularized by the American television show The Simpsons; first used on the show in the episode titled "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (1994).
Possibly ultimately from Yiddish מע (me, “so-so”). First attested in 1928.

They redeemed themselves with this show. The first song or two was meh, but they were on fire after that.

2003, steve-o, “Jam On The River Mini-Review”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):

The voice is excellent as always, but the overall effect was meh until the end, where he became a little bit awesome.

2006, Suzanne D., “Recaps: Finals Week 8 Performances, 5/2/2006”, in alt.tv.american-idol (Usenet):

Nothing that was supposed to be big and exciting came off as such and the rest was meh at best.

2006, FunkyM, “Turned on RAW for the first time in forever last night…”, in rec.sport.pro.wrestling (Usenet):

Mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring.

nic moc

mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring

Both shows left me feeling, meh.

2003, Dana, “10/18/03 Shows”, in alt.tv.trading-spaces (Usenet):

I’m a huge Clay fan, love Ruben’s voice, and have become quite a fan of Kelly’s, as well. Fantasia just leaves me feeling meh.

2004, jennifer, “The FANtasia thing: I don’t get it…”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

I liked it but I wasn’t feeling it for some reason that day, again, I was feeling meh toward video games in general.

2006, ettie...@hotmail.com, “Steve’s impressions on random Genesis games”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):


meh

“What do you want for dinner?” — “Meh. I’m not really hungry.”

“That film was awesome!” — “Meh. I’ve seen better.”

Marge: [weaving on a loom] “Hi Bart, I’m weaving on a loom!”
Bart: “Meh”.

1995 March 19, “Lisa's Wedding”, in The Simpsons:

Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.

2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:

(slang) Expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm.

hm

slang: expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm


meh

(informal) A judgement marked by indifference; lack of impression.


meh

Really meh? ― Really? I don’t think so.

This one your one meh? ― Is this really yours?

You got send [e-mail] meh? I never receive leh.

2010 August 22, Fiona Chan, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13:

“Nice meh?” I would think sourly.

2013 October 7, Tee Hun Ching, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 12:

"Huh? At this hour? Really meh?" He couldn't believe his own ears.

2020, Yasser Khan, Property Agent Secrets: The Underground Playbook For Growing Your Property Agent Business in 2021 & Beyond, →ISBN, page 123:

Not pain, meh. When you have eczema and do tattoos?

2024 March 28, Benjamin Tan, “In Their Own Skin: Portraits of Eczema in Singapore”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 2024-11-26:

(interrogative) Final question particle expressing skepticism.


screen

en-verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

screens (present singular third-person)
screening (participle present)
screened (participle past)
screened (past)

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

der

The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

(film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).

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film, television: to present publicly (on the screen)


cutter

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.

2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:

(television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.


sitcom

كُومِيدِيَا اَلْمَوْقِف

situation comedy — see also situation comedy


telly

en-noun

telly (usually uncountable, plural tellys or tellies)

Not much on telly tonight, as usual!

You're from telly!

2007 August 24, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 1

[...] they were all in agreement: this stuff had to be on the telly.

2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How We Made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in Rail, number 934, page 48:


dresser

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

(theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).


strip

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.


strip

en-verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

strips (present singular third-person)
stripping (participle present)
stripped (participle past)
stripped (past)

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

cog

(television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

der

(television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.


crawl

→ Portuguese: crol, crawl

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

(television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.


quadro

From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.

(television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)


FPS

frames per second
frame per second#English

(film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

en:production control room, in television program creation

(television) The production control room.


previously

(television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.

az előző részek tartalmából

recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series


MLS

en-noun

MLS (countable and uncountable, plural MLSs)

(television) Initialism of medium long shot.


watershed

From water + shed, a calque of German Wasserscheide, a compound of Wasser (“water”) + scheiden (“to divide”).

(Canada, British, television, radio) The time during the day which material of a more adult nature (e.g., violence, swear words, or sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one permitted by law or one contrived from convention (e.g. when children are not watching).

dos rombos

time after which adult material may be broadcast


rating

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

(television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)


ED

From Japanese ED(エンディング) (endingu), from English ending.

Coordinate term: OP

(films, television) Abbreviation of ending theme (end title sequence)..


trombone

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

affix

The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.

1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131:

The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.

2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, page 480:

(film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.


replay

Unadapted borrowing from English replay.


hosepipe

en-verb

hosepipe (third-person singular simple present hosepipes, present participle hosepiping, simple past and past participle hosepiped)

hosepipes (present singular third-person)
hosepiping (participle present)
hosepiped (participle past)
hosepiped (past)

(film, television) To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.


bleacher

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From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish blekare.

In practice, audience members often have badly obstructed views of the sets—whether due to obstructive camera dollies and production personnel or viewers sitting in the bleachers off to the side of the set that is currently being used.

2010, Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style:

(US, television, usually in the plural, by extension) The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming.


mature

en-adj

mature (comparative more mature, superlative most mature)

more mature (comparative)
most mature (superlative)

From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).

/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/

mature content

(television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.


Darth Vader

"Darth" is a blend of dark + death (the derivation from Dark Lord of the Sith is a later development).
"Vader" is traditionally explained as being from Dutch vader (“father”). However, the idea of Vader's fatherhood was only developed for The Empire Strikes Back (after the character was introduced), making this improbable. It is more likely a shortening of invader or from the surname Vader.

What's all this? Looks like Darth Vader's bathroom.

1982, “Knight of the Phoenix”, in Knight Rider, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff):

Darth Vader, a villain of the science-fantasy film series Star Wars.


A roll

en-noun

A roll (usually uncountable, plural A rolls)

(television, film) The primary footage for non-narrative or interview-based film, usually involving talking heads or footage that directly relates to the moment.


televize

televize (nominative singular)
televize (nominative plural)
televize (genitive singular)
televizí (genitive plural)
televizi (dative singular)
televizím (dative plural)
televizi (accusative singular)
televize (accusative plural)
televize (singular vocative)
televize (plural vocative)
televizi (locative singular)
televizích (locative plural)
televizí (instrumental singular)
televizemi (instrumental plural)


Whovian

From (Doctor) Who + -v- + -ian; compare Peruvian and Kachruvian.

But I am sorry; I'm a devout Whovian and I guess I got a little hot seeing the good Doctor ignored like that.

1985, Amazing: science fiction stories, page 23:

Typing birthday and Doctor Who into the search fireld turned up a fan-made video of a Dalek singing "Happy Birthday," which was perfect for my friend Steve, a fellow Whovian.

In his time, he's been a comic-book geek, a role-playing geek, a computer geek, and a sci- fi geek, though never a Trekkie, Trekker, or a Whovian, because he has his limits.

2009, Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci, editors, Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd:

Westin: "Oh, yeah. We found a full fledged member of a fan club that has already seen all episodes of the show[…]he was a closet Whovian, or what ever they are called.”

(fandom slang) A fan of the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who.


ghosting

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

Geisterbild

appearance of ghosts on a television screen


caption

Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).

cog

(theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.

(cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.

надписи

piece of text appearing on screen as part of a film or broadcast

sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants


multiplex

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From multi- + -plex or multi- + complex.

(television) a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium


pull a Homer

en-verb

pull a Homer (third-person singular simple present pulls a Homer, present participle pulling a Homer, simple past and past participle pulled a Homer)

pulls a Homer (present singular third-person)
pulling a Homer (participle present)
pulled a Homer (participle past)
pulled a Homer (past)

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From pull (“to copy or emulate the actions associated with”). Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

(fandom slang, humorous) To succeed despite idiocy.


knockdown

en-noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent.

1999, Scott Skelton, Jim Benson, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour, page 294:

(film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.


Pixar

Conceived as a faux-Spanish word meaning “to make pictures”. See pix (“pictures”) and Spanish -ar (verb-forming suffix).

Pixar Animation Studios, a computer-generated imagery (CGI) company known for its animated films.


Darth

From the Star Wars universe, where it is used as a title for Sith Lords. (There are Darth Vader, Darth Tyranus, Darth Maul etc.) Blend of dark + death (the derivation from Dark Lord of the Sith is a later development).

Consider the threat of an evil hacker, Darth, who can not only eavesdrop on your network connection but also alter the messages that are sent.

2000, David G. Messerschmitt, Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course (textbook), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, page 400

[…] glaring malevolently across his desk at me in the manner that had earned him the nickname “Darth” among his elite cadre of audio penetration officers.

2000, Antonio J. Mendez, Malcolm McConnell, The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 186:

The evil Darth Leonard steals the formula and a young couple must get it back (real life Ward Leonard is a legendary recluse who has hiked the Appalachian Trail something like 20-30 times).

2005, John Illig, Pacific Dream: A Pacific Crest Trail Through-Hike, Elderberry Press, →ISBN, page 74:

I’m sure Darth Hoodie has some other illegal way of messing with inexperienced quarterbacks on the road.

2015 November 27, Jimmy Kempski quoted in "Patriots-Broncos prediction roundup" in Boston Globe

(humorous) Used as a title or name for an evil person.


insert

From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.

der

(television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.

[…] close-ups of her legs on the escalator, an insert of the emergency stop button (ARRET D'URGENCE), intercut close-ups of her glance and the cinema sign, […]

2013, David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, page 316:

(film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.


have a cow

en-verb

have a cow (third-person singular simple present has a cow, present participle having a cow, simple past and past participle had a cow)

has a cow (present singular third-person)
having a cow (participle present)
had a cow (participle past)
had a cow (past)

Unknown. Popularized by the TV show The Simpsons where it was one of the catchphrases of Bart Simpson.

My mom had a cow when I came in late.

Dad says I'm too young to go steady and seems to think I'm going to drag a girl up the aisle instead of to a school dance. He won't let me watch rock 'n' roll shows, and he'd "have a cow" if he knew I watched 77 Sunset Strip.

1959 April 1, The Des Moines Register, page 9:

"Of all the fates on heaven and earth, why did this one befall me?" "Don't have a cow, dad."

1990, “The Call of the Simpsons” (0:12:10 from the start), in The Simpsons, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Homer Simpson and Bart Simpson (Dan Castellaneta and Nancy Cartwright):

“Pregnant. Holy shit.” “Alyson!” “Oh, Mummy, don't have a cow.”

2007, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 69:

“Dammit, Kayla, you're pregnant. Don't pick up a suitcase,” her husband demanded. “It's just a little one.” “Put it down now.” “Don't have a cow, Patrick. I'm pregnant, not incapacitated.”

2014, Susan Mallery, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 115:


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 118:

We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend, page 88:

The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

(often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.

A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as ^([sic]) “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in exchange for money.

2019 June 22, Charisse Ursal, “Social media lures young people to engage in sex for money”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

(Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.


wired

en-adj

wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)

more wired (comparative)
most wired (superlative)

In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.

2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state, page 247:

Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS[…]

2004 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 38, number 3, page 44:

(informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.


video camera

A device for recording video footage, often a portable one used by amateurs; also as a fixed installation for surveillance purposes.


overnight

Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently.

inh

Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.

2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time:

The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.

(television, in the plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.


lector

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.


ATV

Associated Television
w:Associated Television

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Associated Television.

Asia Television Limited
w:Asia Television Limited

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Asia Television Limited.

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of ATV (Austria).


ATV

en-noun

ATV (countable and uncountable, plural ATVs)

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of amateur television.


montage

desc

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Chinese: 蒙太奇 (méngtàiqí)

→ English: montage

→ Greek: μοντάζ (montáz)

→ Japanese: モンタージュ

→ Italian: montaggio

→ Polish: montaż

→ Romanian: montaj

desctree

→ Russian: монтаж (montaž)
→ Armenian: մոնտաժ (montaž)
→ Georgian: მონტაჟი (monṭaži)
→ Kazakh: монтаж (montaj)

→ Turkish: montaj
→ Northern Kurdish: montaj

From monter (“to mount”) (from mont (“mount(ain)”), from Latin mons (“mountain”) + -age.


kenttä

kenttä (nominative singular)
kentät (nominative plural)
kenttä (accusative nominative singular)
kentät (accusative nominative plural)
kentän (accusative genitive singular)
kentät (accusative genitive plural)
kentän (genitive singular)
kenttien (genitive plural)
kenttäin (genitive plural rare)
kenttää (partitive singular)
kenttiä (partitive plural)
kentässä (inessive singular)
kentissä (inessive plural)
kentästä (elative singular)
kentistä (elative plural)
kenttään (illative singular)
kenttiin (illative plural)
kentällä (adessive singular)
kentillä (adessive plural)
kentältä (ablative singular)
kentiltä (ablative plural)
kentälle (allative singular)
kentille (allative plural)
kenttänä (essive singular)
kenttinä (essive plural)
kentäksi (singular translative)
kentiksi (plural translative)
kentättä (abessive singular)
kentittä (abessive plural)
kentin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kenttäni (nominative singular)
kenttäni (nominative plural)
kenttäni (accusative nominative singular)
kenttäni (accusative nominative plural)
kenttäni (accusative genitive singular)
kenttäni (accusative genitive plural)
kenttäni (genitive singular)
kenttieni (genitive plural)
kenttäini (genitive plural rare)
kenttääni (partitive singular)
kenttiäni (partitive plural)
kentässäni (inessive singular)
kentissäni (inessive plural)
kentästäni (elative singular)
kentistäni (elative plural)
kenttääni (illative singular)
kenttiini (illative plural)
kentälläni (adessive singular)
kentilläni (adessive plural)
kentältäni (ablative singular)
kentiltäni (ablative plural)
kentälleni (allative singular)
kentilleni (allative plural)
kenttänäni (essive singular)
kenttinäni (essive plural)
kentäkseni (singular translative)
kentikseni (plural translative)
kentättäni (abessive singular)
kentittäni (abessive plural)
kenttineni (comitative plural)
kenttäsi (nominative singular)
kenttäsi (nominative plural)
kenttäsi (accusative nominative singular)
kenttäsi (accusative nominative plural)
kenttäsi (accusative genitive singular)
kenttäsi (accusative genitive plural)
kenttäsi (genitive singular)
kenttiesi (genitive plural)
kenttäisi (genitive plural rare)
kenttääsi (partitive singular)
kenttiäsi (partitive plural)
kentässäsi (inessive singular)
kentissäsi (inessive plural)
kentästäsi (elative singular)
kentistäsi (elative plural)
kenttääsi (illative singular)
kenttiisi (illative plural)
kentälläsi (adessive singular)
kentilläsi (adessive plural)
kentältäsi (ablative singular)
kentiltäsi (ablative plural)
kentällesi (allative singular)
kentillesi (allative plural)
kenttänäsi (essive singular)
kenttinäsi (essive plural)
kentäksesi (singular translative)
kentiksesi (plural translative)
kentättäsi (abessive singular)
kentittäsi (abessive plural)
kenttinesi (comitative plural)
kenttämme (nominative singular)
kenttämme (nominative plural)
kenttämme (accusative nominative singular)
kenttämme (accusative nominative plural)
kenttämme (accusative genitive singular)
kenttämme (accusative genitive plural)
kenttämme (genitive singular)
kenttiemme (genitive plural)
kenttäimme (genitive plural rare)
kenttäämme (partitive singular)
kenttiämme (partitive plural)
kentässämme (inessive singular)
kentissämme (inessive plural)
kentästämme (elative singular)
kentistämme (elative plural)
kenttäämme (illative singular)
kenttiimme (illative plural)
kentällämme (adessive singular)
kentillämme (adessive plural)
kentältämme (ablative singular)
kentiltämme (ablative plural)
kentällemme (allative singular)
kentillemme (allative plural)
kenttänämme (essive singular)
kenttinämme (essive plural)
kentäksemme (singular translative)
kentiksemme (plural translative)
kentättämme (abessive singular)
kentittämme (abessive plural)
kenttinemme (comitative plural)
kenttänne (nominative singular)
kenttänne (nominative plural)
kenttänne (accusative nominative singular)
kenttänne (accusative nominative plural)
kenttänne (accusative genitive singular)
kenttänne (accusative genitive plural)
kenttänne (genitive singular)
kenttienne (genitive plural)
kenttäinne (genitive plural rare)
kenttäänne (partitive singular)
kenttiänne (partitive plural)
kentässänne (inessive singular)
kentissänne (inessive plural)
kentästänne (elative singular)
kentistänne (elative plural)
kenttäänne (illative singular)
kenttiinne (illative plural)
kentällänne (adessive singular)
kentillänne (adessive plural)
kentältänne (ablative singular)
kentiltänne (ablative plural)
kentällenne (allative singular)
kentillenne (allative plural)
kenttänänne (essive singular)
kenttinänne (essive plural)
kentäksenne (singular translative)
kentiksenne (plural translative)
kentättänne (abessive singular)
kentittänne (abessive plural)
kenttinenne (comitative plural)
kenttänsä (nominative singular)
kenttänsä (nominative plural)
kenttänsä (accusative nominative singular)
kenttänsä (accusative nominative plural)
kenttänsä (accusative genitive singular)
kenttänsä (accusative genitive plural)
kenttänsä (genitive singular)
kenttiensä (genitive plural)
kenttäinsä (genitive plural rare)
kenttäänsä (partitive singular)
kenttiään (partitive plural)
kenttiänsä (partitive plural)
kentässään (inessive singular)
kentässänsä (inessive singular)
kentissään (inessive plural)
kentissänsä (inessive plural)
kentästään (elative singular)
kentästänsä (elative singular)
kentistään (elative plural)
kentistänsä (elative plural)
kenttäänsä (illative singular)
kenttiinsä (illative plural)
kentällään (adessive singular)
kentällänsä (adessive singular)
kentillään (adessive plural)
kentillänsä (adessive plural)
kentältään (ablative singular)
kentältänsä (ablative singular)
kentiltään (ablative plural)
kentiltänsä (ablative plural)
kentälleen (allative singular)
kentällensä (allative singular)
kentilleen (allative plural)
kentillensä (allative plural)
kenttänään (essive singular)
kenttänänsä (essive singular)
kenttinään (essive plural)
kenttinänsä (essive plural)
kentäkseen (singular translative)
kentäksensä (singular translative)
kentikseen (plural translative)
kentiksensä (plural translative)
kentättään (abessive singular)
kentättänsä (abessive singular)
kentittään (abessive plural)
kentittänsä (abessive plural)
kenttineen (comitative plural)
kenttinensä (comitative plural)

[ˈk̟e̞n̪t̪ːæ]

Borrowing from Sami, ultimately from Proto-Samic *kientē.

(television, video) Synonym of puolikuva (“field (in video)”)


frame rate

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-frame rate.wav

The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per second (often abbreviated "fps") or, equivalently, hertz (Hz).

幀率 /帧率

measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce frames


cadena

→ Cebuano: kadena

→ Huave: galen

→ Tagalog: kadena

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: gden

Inherited from Old Spanish cadena, from Latin catēna. Cognate with English chain.

(broadcasting, television and radio) channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)


shooting

en-noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).


retrace

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

(television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.


jornal

→ Hunsrik: Schurnall

Borrowed from French journal, from Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”).


blockbuster

blockbuster (nominative singular)
blockbustery (nominative plural)
blockbustera (genitive singular)
blockbusterów (genitive plural)
blockbusterowi (dative singular)
blockbusterom (dative plural)
blockbuster (accusative singular)
blockbustery (accusative plural)
blockbusterem (instrumental singular)
blockbusterami (instrumental plural)
blockbusterze (locative singular)
blockbusterach (locative plural)
blockbusterze (singular vocative)
blockbustery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English blockbuster. First attested in 1997.


doofer

Respelling of “do for”, as in “it will do for that job”.

From a very early age, my elder grandson took to calling the remote control for the TV the ‘doofer’. He didn't come up with the name himself. It was the name his parents used, and he just picked it up – the name, that is, not the doofer. Actually, he became very adept at negotiating his way around the doofer and even had to teach his grandfather how it worked. But then, children pick these things up very quickly – like the doofer and the way it operates. Our doofer is always getting lost. It's never there when you need it, and it's always somewhere you don't want it to be – […]

2014, Tom Gordon, “December 12 – Simplicity”, in Look Well to This Day: A Year of Daily Reflections, Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications, →ISBN, page 357:

I was bombarded with hysterical Black Friday offers to upgrade my telly, my tablet, my computer, my phone and my DVD player. Why in the name of G5 would I want to do that? I already have to negotiate my way, weepily, round four doofers (as in “it’ll do for that”, aka a remote) just to watch I’m a Celebrity…

2014 November 28, Judith Woods, “Three cheers for Mariella and the ‘M’ word”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 2017-06-22:

(slang) An object whose name the speaker or writer cannot remember or does not know.

(slang, specifically) The remote control for a television.


persuader

These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.

1953, Stanley William Amos, D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice, page 108:

(television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.


Jedi

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas as early as 1973 (in the manuscript Journal of the Whills) and first used in his 1977 film Star Wars. Said to have been adapted from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki, “‘period drama’ motion pictures about samurai”), or perhaps inspired by the words Jed (King) and Jeddak (Emperor) in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which Lucas had considered adapting to film. Another potential influence on the word "Jedi" is Hebrew ידיד (yadíd, “beloved; male friend”). In his book The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that Lucas may have been influenced by this term when creating the name for his knights. Kaminski notes that Lucas has cited Jewish mysticism as an inspiration for his work, and that he may have been drawn to the idea of his heroes being beloved protectors.

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jedi.

(Star Wars) One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.


Jedi

(Star Wars) Jedi (a fictional order of beings)


lightsaber

Compound of light + saber; coined by American filmmaker George Lucas for the Star Wars film franchise. First mentioned in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope) which was released on 25 May, 1977.

coined

[Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker] Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

1977 May 25, George Lucas, Star Wars, spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness):

Wielding his flashlight like a lightsaber, Kyle sent golden shafts slicing through the swirling vapors.

2004, Rob N. Hood, Beyond the Wind, Binghamton, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 1:

This was the era of Star Wars, the reinvention of science fiction with the homely Luke Skywalker. But even Luke had the Force and a tie-fighter. The Doctor was a humanist, and his spacecraft was an obsolete phone box redolent of bobbies with whistles. He would never resort to lightsabre against villains, preferring to confront them with jelly babies.

2006 September, Steve Tomkins, “Icon of the Month No. 82: Dr Who”, in Simon Jones, editor, Third Way, volume 29, number 7, Harrow, London: Third Way Trust, →ISSN, page 24:

Poster Power / Get the scheme behind the scene with Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection. This boxed set includes five double-sided posters with blueprints of the Death Star, R2-D2, and C-3PO, lightsabers and blasters, Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.

2008 November, “Collecting”, in Boys' Life, volume XCVIII, number 11, Irving, Tx.: Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, page 52:

(science fiction) A sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light or energy.


HD

en-noun

HD (countable and uncountable, plural HDs)

Exploring a new place through seasonal work was like “experiencing life in HD”, she said. “It really cemented the idea that the best way to learn about things is just to dive straight in and get as much information as possible, particularly at that age.”

2024 October 7, Jem Bartholomew, “‘Doesn’t feel fair’: young Britons struggle with losing right to work in EU since Brexit”, in The Guardian:

(television) Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).


Borg

* As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from various places derived from Old Norse borg (“stronghold”).
* As a north/Low German surname, this is the Low German form of the surname Burg.
* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish בורג (burg, “credit”), from Middle High German borgen (“to lend, borrow”), from Old High German borgēn.
* As a Maltese surname, from the noun borġ (“tower, stronghold”), distantly related to the first two senses above.


Muppet

Diane Sawyer
Elmo
Jim Henson
Kevin Clash
Muppet

Coined by Jim Henson as an alteration of puppet. Henson had claimed the word was a blend of marionette + puppet, but later recanted.

One of a group of established puppet characters acting as a sort of repertory company on The Muppet Show, and/or appearing on Sesame Street.


parade

en-noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

→ Hindi: परैड (paraiḍ)

→ Urdu: پریڈ (paraiḍ)

From French parade (“an ostentatious display, a military display”), from parer (“to beautify, prepare, take pride in”) + -ade probably under influence from earlier Italian parata (“preparation, a military parade, an ostentatious display”) and Latin magnō parātū (“with great preparation”). Various senses similarly influenced by earlier French and Italian uses. Doublet of pare.

der

Scottish Programme Parade

Listen to your regional Programme Parade at 8.10 a.m. daily.

programme parade
programme parade#English

(UK, figurative, now uncommon) Short for programme parade: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.


Vulcano

(astronomy, historical) Vulcan (planet previously theorised to exist in orbit between Mercury and the Sun)


DB

(television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.


DV

en-noun

DV (countable and uncountable, plural DVs)

Vincent opened it and found a video camera, a Panasonic. She recognized it as one of the new kind that took DV tapes, but it still had an unexpected weight.

2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 67:

(television) Initialism of digital video.

(television) Initialism of described video.


HDTV

ja-noun

エッチディー ティーブイ

HDTV (canonical)
etchidī tībui (romanization)

高精細度テレビジョン 高精細度テレビジョン#Japanese

high-definition television
high-definition television#English

(television) Synonym of 高精細度テレビジョン (kōseisaido terebijon, “high-definition television”); HDTV


DD

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «DD».ogg

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «Donald Duck».ogg

First initials of the name Donald Duck (“Donald Duck”).

Donald Duck
Donald Duck#Norwegian_Bokmål


TNN

The Nashville Network
w:The Nashville Network

(US, television, historical) Initialism of The Nashville Network.


ITV

Initialism of Independent Television, a British commercial television network.


P

en-noun

P (countable and uncountable, plural Ps)

product placement
product placement#English

(UK, television) Initialism of product placement. (displayed on screen as an indicator to viewers)


masthead

(television, by extension) The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident.


kicker

[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]

1984, Media Report to Women, volume 12, page 46:

Instead, a reporter can carve out a niche as an entertainment/community reporter, thus concentrating their efforts on filing feature stories for the E block, where the kickers are slated. Kickers are feel-good pieces placed at the end of the newscast to leave viewers in a good mood […]

2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 77:

(radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

(film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.


trece

ro-verb

a trece (third-person singular present trece, past participle trecut) 3rd conjugation

a trece 3rd conjugation (canonical)
trece (present singular third-person)
trecut (participle past)
a trece (infinitive)
trecând (gerund)
trecut (participle past)
trec (first-person indicative present singular)
treci (indicative present second-person singular)
trece (indicative present singular third-person)
trecem (first-person indicative plural present)
treceți (indicative plural present second-person)
trec (indicative plural present third-person)
treceam (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
treceai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
trecea (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
treceam (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
treceați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
treceau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
trecui (first-person indicative perfect singular)
trecuși (indicative perfect second-person singular)
trecu (indicative perfect singular third-person)
trecurăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
trecurăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
trecură (indicative perfect plural third-person)
trecusem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
trecuseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
trecuse (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
trecuserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
trecuserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
trecuseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să trec (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să treci (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să treacă (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să trecem (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să treceți (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să treacă (plural present subjunctive third-person)
treci (imperative second-person singular)
treceți (imperative plural second-person)
nu trece (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu treceți (imperative negative plural second-person)

(intransitive, television jargon, of a program) to show (be on television)


scoop

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.

gloss

"a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">schop</i> (“spade”)

cog

(film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.


MAV

en-noun

MAV (countable and uncountable, plural MAVs)

(Australia, television, uncountable) Initialism of mature adult audience (“Strong Violence”).


AMC

(television) Initialism of All My Children: an American television soap opera broadcast from 1970 to 2013.


S

S (countable and uncountable, plural Ss)

Abbreviation.
S
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /st/ in a word, e.g. it's the transcription of the suffix -ist.
# (stenoscript) the prefix sub-
#: [some manuals advise lower-case s for the prefix sub-]
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of south.
# (education) Initialism of satisfactory.


TBS

Turner Broadcasting System
w:Turner Broadcasting System

(US, television) Initialism of Turner Broadcasting System.


TVA

(Canada, television) Initialism of Téléviseurs / Télédiffuseurs associés (“Associated Telecasters”).


news channel

A television channel dedicated to news, often operating continuously.


klingon

klingon (nominative singular)
klingonit (nominative plural)
klingon (accusative nominative singular)
klingonit (accusative nominative plural)
klingonin (accusative genitive singular)
klingonit (accusative genitive plural)
klingonin (genitive singular)
klingonien (genitive plural)
klingonia (partitive singular)
klingoneja (partitive plural)
klingonissa (inessive singular)
klingoneissa (inessive plural)
klingonista (elative singular)
klingoneista (elative plural)
klingoniin (illative singular)
klingoneihin (illative plural)
klingonilla (adessive singular)
klingoneilla (adessive plural)
klingonilta (ablative singular)
klingoneilta (ablative plural)
klingonille (allative singular)
klingoneille (allative plural)
klingonina (essive singular)
klingoneina (essive plural)
klingoniksi (singular translative)
klingoneiksi (plural translative)
klingonitta (abessive singular)
klingoneitta (abessive plural)
klingonein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
klingonini (nominative singular)
klingonini (nominative plural)
klingonini (accusative nominative singular)
klingonini (accusative nominative plural)
klingonini (accusative genitive singular)
klingonini (accusative genitive plural)
klingonini (genitive singular)
klingonieni (genitive plural)
klingoniani (partitive singular)
klingonejani (partitive plural)
klingonissani (inessive singular)
klingoneissani (inessive plural)
klingonistani (elative singular)
klingoneistani (elative plural)
klingoniini (illative singular)
klingoneihini (illative plural)
klingonillani (adessive singular)
klingoneillani (adessive plural)
klingoniltani (ablative singular)
klingoneiltani (ablative plural)
klingonilleni (allative singular)
klingoneilleni (allative plural)
klingoninani (essive singular)
klingoneinani (essive plural)
klingonikseni (singular translative)
klingoneikseni (plural translative)
klingonittani (abessive singular)
klingoneittani (abessive plural)
klingoneineni (comitative plural)
klingonisi (nominative singular)
klingonisi (nominative plural)
klingonisi (accusative nominative singular)
klingonisi (accusative nominative plural)
klingonisi (accusative genitive singular)
klingonisi (accusative genitive plural)
klingonisi (genitive singular)
klingoniesi (genitive plural)
klingoniasi (partitive singular)
klingonejasi (partitive plural)
klingonissasi (inessive singular)
klingoneissasi (inessive plural)
klingonistasi (elative singular)
klingoneistasi (elative plural)
klingoniisi (illative singular)
klingoneihisi (illative plural)
klingonillasi (adessive singular)
klingoneillasi (adessive plural)
klingoniltasi (ablative singular)
klingoneiltasi (ablative plural)
klingonillesi (allative singular)
klingoneillesi (allative plural)
klingoninasi (essive singular)
klingoneinasi (essive plural)
klingoniksesi (singular translative)
klingoneiksesi (plural translative)
klingonittasi (abessive singular)
klingoneittasi (abessive plural)
klingoneinesi (comitative plural)
klingonimme (nominative singular)
klingonimme (nominative plural)
klingonimme (accusative nominative singular)
klingonimme (accusative nominative plural)
klingonimme (accusative genitive singular)
klingonimme (accusative genitive plural)
klingonimme (genitive singular)
klingoniemme (genitive plural)
klingoniamme (partitive singular)
klingonejamme (partitive plural)
klingonissamme (inessive singular)
klingoneissamme (inessive plural)
klingonistamme (elative singular)
klingoneistamme (elative plural)
klingoniimme (illative singular)
klingoneihimme (illative plural)
klingonillamme (adessive singular)
klingoneillamme (adessive plural)
klingoniltamme (ablative singular)
klingoneiltamme (ablative plural)
klingonillemme (allative singular)
klingoneillemme (allative plural)
klingoninamme (essive singular)
klingoneinamme (essive plural)
klingoniksemme (singular translative)
klingoneiksemme (plural translative)
klingonittamme (abessive singular)
klingoneittamme (abessive plural)
klingoneinemme (comitative plural)
klingoninne (nominative singular)
klingoninne (nominative plural)
klingoninne (accusative nominative singular)
klingoninne (accusative nominative plural)
klingoninne (accusative genitive singular)
klingoninne (accusative genitive plural)
klingoninne (genitive singular)
klingonienne (genitive plural)
klingonianne (partitive singular)
klingonejanne (partitive plural)
klingonissanne (inessive singular)
klingoneissanne (inessive plural)
klingonistanne (elative singular)
klingoneistanne (elative plural)
klingoniinne (illative singular)
klingoneihinne (illative plural)
klingonillanne (adessive singular)
klingoneillanne (adessive plural)
klingoniltanne (ablative singular)
klingoneiltanne (ablative plural)
klingonillenne (allative singular)
klingoneillenne (allative plural)
klingoninanne (essive singular)
klingoneinanne (essive plural)
klingoniksenne (singular translative)
klingoneiksenne (plural translative)
klingonittanne (abessive singular)
klingoneittanne (abessive plural)
klingoneinenne (comitative plural)
klingoninsa (nominative singular)
klingoninsa (nominative plural)
klingoninsa (accusative nominative singular)
klingoninsa (accusative nominative plural)
klingoninsa (accusative genitive singular)
klingoninsa (accusative genitive plural)
klingoninsa (genitive singular)
klingoniensa (genitive plural)
klingoniaan (partitive singular)
klingoniansa (partitive singular)
klingonejaan (partitive plural)
klingonejansa (partitive plural)
klingonissaan (inessive singular)
klingonissansa (inessive singular)
klingoneissaan (inessive plural)
klingoneissansa (inessive plural)
klingonistaan (elative singular)
klingonistansa (elative singular)
klingoneistaan (elative plural)
klingoneistansa (elative plural)
klingoniinsa (illative singular)
klingoneihinsa (illative plural)
klingonillaan (adessive singular)
klingonillansa (adessive singular)
klingoneillaan (adessive plural)
klingoneillansa (adessive plural)
klingoniltaan (ablative singular)
klingoniltansa (ablative singular)
klingoneiltaan (ablative plural)
klingoneiltansa (ablative plural)
klingonilleen (allative singular)
klingonillensa (allative singular)
klingoneilleen (allative plural)
klingoneillensa (allative plural)
klingoninaan (essive singular)
klingoninansa (essive singular)
klingoneinaan (essive plural)
klingoneinansa (essive plural)
klingonikseen (singular translative)
klingoniksensa (singular translative)
klingoneikseen (plural translative)
klingoneiksensa (plural translative)
klingonittaan (abessive singular)
klingonittansa (abessive singular)
klingoneittaan (abessive plural)
klingoneittansa (abessive plural)
klingoneineen (comitative plural)
klingoneinensa (comitative plural)

Klingon, Klingonese (fictional language)

A Klingon (member of a fictional alien race)


klingon

fr-adj

klingon (feminine klingonne, masculine plural klingons, feminine plural klingonnes)

klingonne (feminine)
klingons (masculine plural)
klingonnes (feminine plural)


klingon

Klingon (artificial language from the Star Trek franchise)


klingon

(science fiction) Klingon (a member of the Klingon species in Star Trek)

(science fiction) Klingon (artificial language from the Star Trek franchise)


WGA

The use of AI in the production of film and television – either to write scripts, generate actors’ likenesses, or cut corners in paying creative work, has been a major point of contention in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Sag and the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

2023 July 26, Adrian Horton, “Netflix lists AI job worth $900,000 amid twin Hollywood strikes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The W.G.A.’s negotiating committee recognized that A.I. had to be on the table, and not simply as something to be resisted or refused.

2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Writers Guild of America
w:Writers Guild of America

(US, film, television) Initialism of Writers Guild of America, the labor union representing writers of film and television.


OB

en-noun

OB (countable and uncountable, plural OBs)

(television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcast.

(television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcasting.


GF

(television) Initialism of Grande Fratello, the Italian-language version of the reality show Big Brother.


newscast

(broadcasting, journalism) A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.


personal video recorder

personal video recorder (plural personal video recorders)

(television, Canada, UK, Ireland) A device that can record broadcast television programmes, or the images from a video camera, for subsequent playback through a television set


actuality

actuality (countable and uncountable, plural actualities)

From actual + -ity.
* (television): Influenced by French actualité.

A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.

1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:

This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.

2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:

(television) Live reporting on current affairs.


judder

judder (countable and uncountable, plural judders)

(television) Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder


Disney

English surname of Norman origin, from Old French de (“of, from”) + Isigny (a place in Calvados). For the placename, see Isigny-sur-Mer. In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.

A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Wesley E. Disney.


Disney

Disney (nominative singular)
Disney-k (nominative plural)
Disney-t (accusative singular)
Disney-ket (accusative plural)
Disney-nek (dative singular)
Disney-knek (dative plural)
Disney-vel (instrumental singular)
Disney-kkel (instrumental plural)
Disney-ért (causal-final singular)
Disney-kért (causal-final plural)
Disney-vé (singular translative)
Disney-kké (plural translative)
Disney-ig (singular terminative)
Disney-kig (plural terminative)
Disney-ként (essive-formal singular)
Disney-kként (essive-formal plural)
Disney-ben (inessive singular)
Disney-kben (inessive plural)
Disney-n (singular superessive)
Disney-ken (plural superessive)
Disney-nél (adessive singular)
Disney-knél (adessive plural)
Disney-be (illative singular)
Disney-kbe (illative plural)
Disney-re (singular sublative)
Disney-kre (plural sublative)
Disney-hez (allative singular)
Disney-khez (allative plural)
Disney-ből (elative singular)
Disney-kből (elative plural)
Disney-ről (delative singular)
Disney-kről (delative plural)
Disney-től (ablative singular)
Disney-ktől (ablative plural)
Disney-é (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Disney-ké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Disney-éi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Disney-kéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Disney-m (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Disney-jeim (or Disney-im) (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
Disney-d (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Disney-jeid (or Disney-id) (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
Disney-je (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Disney-jei (or Disney-i) (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
Disney-nk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Disney-jeink (or Disney-ink) (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
Disney-tek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Disney-jeitek (or Disney-itek) (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
Disney-jük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Disney-jeik (or Disney-ik) (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


Disney

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

un film della Disney


Disney

pl-prop

Disney m pers (related adjective disnejowski)

disnejowski (adjective)
Disney (nominative singular)
Disneya (genitive singular)
Disneyowi (dative singular)
Disneya (accusative singular)
Disneyem (instrumental singular)
Disneyu (locative singular)
Disneyu (singular vocative)

Walt Disney (American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur)

(metonymically) Disney (The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney)


Disney

(Brazil, slang, neologism) easy, comfortable, or favorable


Disney

(Brazil, slang, neologism) the state of forgetting something; blackout; oblivion


Disney

um filme da Disney

Estou indo para a Disney nas férias.


TARDIS

Coined in 1963 for the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who; said to stand for "Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space".

'While I was in the Rani's TARDIS, I made an adjustment or two.' He chuckled, remembering the occasion.

1986, Pip & Jane Baker, chapter 19, in The Mark of the Rani, page 129:

The Master's essence escapes his funeral urn and lands the TARDIS in San Francisco on December 30, 1999.

2000, Fraser A. Sherman, Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan, page 57:

I want the ground to swallow me up. I want to hide in a corner, curl up, and weep, sucking my thumb. I want the TARDIS to appear and take me away.

2004, Will Hadcroft, The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing up with Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed), page 16:

The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.


continuity

en-noun

continuity (countable and uncountable, plural continuities)

Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas, equivalent to continue + -ity.

(uncountable, radio, television) The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.


takeout

takeout (countable and uncountable, plural takeouts)

desc

Japanese: テイクアウト (teikuauto), テークアウト (tēkuauto)

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Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington.

1994, Penn Kimball, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Downsizing the news: network cutbacks in the nation's capital (page 19)


TV set

TV sets are spewing Baywatch through the windows into black

1996, Mark O. Everett, Jim Jacobsen, Jim Weatherly (lyrics and music), “Susan's House”, in Beautiful Freak, performed by Eels:


television set

A television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen.

Miami
Toshiba
Wolfsonian-FIU
television set


telegenic

en-adj

telegenic (comparative more telegenic, superlative most telegenic)

more telegenic (comparative)
most telegenic (superlative)

From tele- + -genic, by analogy with photogenic.

The young politician was very telegenic.

Then again, TV politicking simply selects for politicians who are good at TV — charismatic-cool like Mr. Obama, provocative-hot like Mr. Trump — and being telegenic does not necessarily mean having good policy or judgment or decision-making instincts.

2024 July 22, James Poniewozik, “One Night of TV Canceled a President”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.

televisiu

having an appearance and exhibiting qualities attractive to television viewers


SAP

en-noun

SAP (countable and uncountable, plural SAPs)

second audio program
w:second audio program

(television) Initialism of second audio program.


televise

en-verb

televise (third-person singular simple present televises, present participle televising, simple past and past participle televised)

televises (present singular third-person)
televising (participle present)
televised (participle past)
televised (past)

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first major events to be televised.

To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.


WCG

(television) Initialism of wide color gamut.


opt-out

en-noun

opt-out (countable and uncountable, plural opt-outs)

National television channels (descendant network) with regional or local slots or opt-outs: […]

1995, Pierre Musso, Philippe Souêtre, Lionel Levasseur, The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe:

There is no limitation to the number of regional and local opt-outs that France 3 can operate; nor are there any guidelines in the channel's remit as to the length and content of such news programmes.

2003, Michael Scriven, Emily Roberts, Group Identities on French and British Television, page 27:

(television, radio, countable) A regional broadcast that other stations in the network may elect not to include.


Fernsehen

de-noun

Fernsehen n (strong, genitive Fernsehens, no plural)

Fernsehens (genitive)
Fernsehen (nominative singular)
Fernsehens (genitive singular)
Fernsehen (dative singular)
Fernsehen (accusative singular)

fern + sehen (“far-see”), a calque of French télévision.


Fernseher

Fernseher m (strong, genitive Fernsehers, plural Fernseher)

Fernsehers (genitive)
Fernseher (plural)
Fernseher (nominative singular)
Fernseher (definite nominative plural)
Fernsehers (genitive singular)
Fernseher (definite genitive plural)
Fernseher (dative singular)
Fernsehern (dative definite plural)
Fernseher (accusative singular)
Fernseher (accusative definite plural)

/ˈfɛɐ̯nzeːɐ/

/ˈfɛɐ̯nseːɐ/


filler

(television, music) material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album


Teletubby

She spoke like the Teletubbies, behaved like a Teletubby, and seemed to live in this harmonious toddler phantasy world.

2007, Michael Günter, Playing the Unconscious, page 98:

They [wind turbines] turn pristine landscapes into Teletubby-style horror shows.

2012, James Delingpole, How To Be Right:

Any of the four color-coded tubby human-like characters in the BBC children's television series Teletubbies.


aktor

pl-noun

aktor m pers (female equivalent aktorka, diminutive aktorzyk, augmentative aktorzyna or aktorzysko)

aktorka (feminine)
aktorzyk (diminutive)
aktorzyna (augmentative)
aktorzysko (augmentative)
aktor (nominative singular)
aktorzy (nominative plural)
aktory (derogatory nominative plural)
aktora (genitive singular)
aktorów (genitive plural)
aktorowi (dative singular)
aktorom (dative plural)
aktora (accusative singular)
aktorów (accusative plural)
aktorem (instrumental singular)
aktorami (instrumental plural)
aktorze (locative singular)
aktorach (locative plural)
aktorze (singular vocative)
aktorzy (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin āctor. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French acteur. First attested in 1587.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “aktor”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(film, television, theater) actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or film)


roller

→ Welsh: rholer

* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.

2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 69:

(television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.


regia

(theater, television, etc.) direction, production


vai

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Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese ꞗĕai, ꞗai in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects.
Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 多埋 (MC ta meaj) (modern SV: đa mai).
Compare Proto-Katuic *ʔapaal (“shoulder”) (whence Pacoh apal).
Some North Central dialects have the form ban with unlenited ‹b› (vs. standard form with lenited ‹v›) and ‹-n› reflex of earlier *-l.

vai chính

vai phụ

(television, film, theater) a role; a part


closed-circuit television

en-noun

closed-circuit television (countable and uncountable, plural closed-circuit televisions)

Holborn Underground Station, on London Transport's Piccadilly and Central Lines, has been equipped with closed-circuit television to help control passenger movement.

1963 January, “News and comment”, in Modern Railways, page 14:

A system of television cameras, connected by cable to a control room, used for surveillance.


CBBC

(television) Initialism of Children's BBC.


smear

smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)

From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren.

In television terms, a certain amount of smear, ringing, and anticipatory overshoot are indigenous to VSB transmission.

1954, Radio & Television News: Radio-electronic engineering section:

Results show the reduction in intelligibility produced by changing the filter condition was much greater than reductions caused by altering smear duration.

1972, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports:

(radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.


chaîne

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Inherited from Middle French chaisne, from Old French chaene, chaiene, caiene, inherited from Latin catēna. Doublet of cadène and catène. The long vowel derives from the Old French hiatus; by analogy the length was expressed with a silent -s- in Middle French, which was then replaced with the circumflex.

Pouvez-vous changer de chaîne, s’il vous plaît?

En janvier, 6ter a été la première chaîne à diffuser le format original de « Storage Wars » qui se déroule en Californie et qui a réuni 215 000 téléspectateurs lors de la première diffusion, le 3 janvier, en deuxième partie de soirée.

2015 November 21, “« Storage Wars », une chasse au trésor bien artificielle”, in Le Monde:

In January, 6ter was the first channel to broadcast the original format of Storage Wars, which takes place in California and attracted 215,000 viewers for the first broadcast on January 3 during the prime-time slot.


sound bite

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

1995, Carl Sagan, “Science and Hope”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

(journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.


beinn

is-adj

beinn (comparative beinni, superlative beinastur)

beinni (comparative)
beinastur (superlative)
beinn (masculine nominative strong)
bein (feminine nominative strong)
beint (neuter nominative strong)
beinan (accusative masculine strong)
beina (accusative feminine strong)
beint (accusative neuter strong)
beinum (dative masculine strong)
beinni (dative feminine strong)
beinu (dative neuter strong)
beins (genitive masculine strong)
beinnar (feminine genitive strong)
beins (genitive neuter strong)
beinir (masculine nominative strong)
beinar (feminine nominative strong)
bein (neuter nominative strong)
beina (accusative masculine strong)
beinar (accusative feminine strong)
bein (accusative neuter strong)
beinum (dative strong)
beinna (genitive strong)
beini (masculine nominative weak)
beina (feminine nominative weak)
beina (neuter nominative weak)
beina (masculine weak)
beinu (feminine weak)
beina (neuter weak)
beinu (plural weak)
beinni (comparative masculine singular weak)
beinni (comparative feminine singular weak)
beinna (comparative neuter singular weak)
beinni (comparative plural weak)
beinastur (masculine nominative strong superlative)
beinust (feminine nominative strong superlative)
beinast (neuter nominative strong superlative)
beinastan (accusative masculine strong superlative)
beinasta (accusative feminine strong superlative)
beinast (accusative neuter strong superlative)
beinustum (dative masculine strong superlative)
beinastri (dative feminine strong superlative)
beinustu (dative neuter strong superlative)
beinasts (genitive masculine strong superlative)
beinastrar (feminine genitive strong superlative)
beinasts (genitive neuter strong superlative)
beinastir (masculine nominative strong superlative)
beinastar (feminine nominative strong superlative)
beinust (neuter nominative strong superlative)
beinasta (accusative masculine strong superlative)
beinastar (accusative feminine strong superlative)
beinust (accusative neuter strong superlative)
beinustum (dative strong superlative)
beinastra (genitive strong superlative)
beinasti (masculine nominative superlative weak)
beinasta (feminine nominative superlative weak)
beinasta (neuter nominative superlative weak)
beinasta (masculine superlative weak)
beinustu (feminine superlative weak)
beinasta (neuter superlative weak)
beinustu (plural superlative weak)

From Old Norse beinn, from Proto-Germanic *bainaz.


ditty bag

Suggested to be a clipping of commodity bag, a British naval term.

(television) A cameraman's bag containing various small tools.


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

Give me a jingle when you find out something.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

Coordinate term: broadcaster

For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-11-01:

So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.


serie

serie (indefinite nominative singular)
series (genitive indefinite singular)
serien (definite nominative singular)
seriens (definite genitive singular)
serier (indefinite nominative plural)
seriers (genitive indefinite plural)
serierna (definite nominative plural)
seriernas (definite genitive plural)

series; a regularly broadcasted TV show.


stinger

From sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.

1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.

(slang, television and film) An extension cord.


backing

en-noun

backing (countable and uncountable, plural backings)

The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.

2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design, page 134:


sweeps

(US, television) The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.


shoot 'em up

My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:

An unmissable shoot 'em up.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

(idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.


LWT

London Weekend Television
w:en:London Weekend Television

(UK, television) Initialism of London Weekend Television.


X-Phile

1995, Ngaire Genge, The Unofficial X-Files Companion: An X-Phile's Guide to the Mysteries, Conspiracies, and Really Strange Truths Behind the Show, Crown Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN:

1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227,
And that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile.

2003, Robynn J. Stilwell, "The sound is ‘out there’: score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files", in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70,
The X-Files – as any X-Phile could tell you – divides into two kinds of episodes: the mythology shows, which further the overarching plot of Mulder’s search for the truth that is ‘out there’ about the US government conspiracy to conceal the alien presence; and the stand-alone shows.

My involvement in coffee connoisseur (Kozinets, 2002), Star Trek fan (2001) and X-Phile (1997) communities was high.

2006, Robert V. Kozinets, “Netnography 2.0”, in Russell W. Belk, editor, Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:

(fandom slang) A fan of the television series The X-Files.


телевизор

televizor (romanization)
телевизор (absolute singular)
телевизорҙар (absolute plural)
телевизорҙың (definite genitive singular)
телевизорҙарҙың (definite genitive plural)
телевизорға (dative singular)
телевизорҙарға (dative plural)
телевизорҙы (accusative definite singular)
телевизорҙарҙы (accusative definite plural)
телевизорҙа (locative singular)
телевизорҙарҙа (locative plural)
телевизорҙан (ablative singular)
телевизорҙарҙан (ablative plural)

ba-decl-noun

телевизорҙың

телевизорҙан

телевизорҙар

телевизорҙарҙың

телевизорҙарға

телевизорҙарҙы

телевизорҙарҙа

телевизорҙарҙан

те‧ле‧ви‧зор

From Russian телеви́зор (televízor, “TV set”).

bor

Минең телевизор ҡарарға ваҡытым юҡ.


телевизор

bg-noun

телеви́зор • (televízor) m

телеви́зор (canonical)
televízor (romanization)
телеви́зор (indefinite singular)
телеви́зори (indefinite plural)
телеви́зорът (definite singular subjective)
телеви́зорите (definite plural subjective)
телеви́зора (definite objective singular)
телеви́зорите (definite objective plural)
телеви́зора (count-form plural)
телеви́зоре (singular vocative)
телеви́зори (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

телеви́зор<(v)>


телевизор

televizor (romanization)
телевизор (nominative singular)
телевизорлар (nominative plural)
телевизордың (genitive singular)
телевизорлардың (genitive plural)
телевизорға (dative singular)
телевизорларға (dative plural)
телевизорды (accusative singular)
телевизорларды (accusative plural)
телевизорда (locative singular)
телевизорларда (locative plural)
телевизордан (ablative singular)
телевизорлардан (ablative plural)
телевизормен (instrumental singular)
телевизорлармен (instrumental plural)

kk-decl-noun

телевизорлар

телевизордың

телевизорлардың

телевизорларға

телевизорларды

телевизорларда

телевизордан

телевизорлардан

телевизормен

телевизорлармен

Borrowed from Russian телеви́зор (televízor).


телевизор

те‧ле‧ви‧зор

Borrowed from Russian телеви́зор m inan sg (televízor), from English televisor sg.