телевизор

ru-noun+

телеви́зор • (televízor) m inan (genitive телеви́зора, nominative plural телеви́зоры, genitive plural телеви́зоров)

телеви́зор (canonical)
televízor (romanization)
телеви́зора (genitive)
телеви́зоры (nominative plural)
телеви́зоров (genitive plural)
телеви́зор (nominative singular)
телеви́зоры (nominative plural)
телеви́зора (genitive singular)
телеви́зоров (genitive plural)
телеви́зору (dative singular)
телеви́зорам (dative plural)
телеви́зор (accusative singular)
телеви́зоры (accusative plural)
телеви́зором (instrumental singular)
телеви́зорами (instrumental plural)
телеви́зоре (prepositional singular)
телеви́зорах (plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani:

Cyrillic script: телевизор

Latin script: televizor

→ Bashkir: телевизор (televizor)

→ Kazakh:

Arabic script: تەلەۋيزور

Cyrillic script: телевизор (televizor)

→ Mongolian:

Cyrillic script: телевизор (televizor)

Mongolian script: ᠲᠧᠯᠧᠸᠢᠽᠣᠷ (tēlēwizor)

→ Kildin Sami: телевизэр (tjeljevizer)

→ Uzbek:

Cyrillic script: телевизор

Latin script: televizor

→ Yiddish: טעלעוויזאָר (televizor)

Ru-телевизор.ogg


телевизор

телѐвӣзор (canonical masculine)
telèvīzor (romanization)
телевизор (nominative singular)
телевизори (nominative plural)
телевизора (genitive singular)
телевизора (genitive plural)
телевизору (dative singular)
телевизорима (dative plural)
телевизор (accusative singular)
телевизоре (accusative plural)
телевизоре (singular vocative)
телевизори (plural vocative)
телевизору (locative singular)
телевизорима (locative plural)
телевизором (instrumental singular)
телевизорима (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

телевизорима

телевизорима

телевизорима

те‧ле‧ви‧зор

From телеви́зија.


televizor

televizorlar (plural)
televizor (nominative singular)
televizorlar (nominative plural)
televizorning (genitive singular)
televizorlarning (genitive plural)
televizorga (dative singular)
televizorlarga (dative plural)
televizorni (accusative definite singular)
televizorlarni (accusative definite plural)
televizorda (locative singular)
televizorlarda (locative plural)
televizordan (ablative singular)
televizorlardan (ablative plural)
televizordek (singular)
televizorlardek (plural)
televizorim (nominative possessive singular)
televizorlarim (nominative plural possessive)
televizorimning (genitive possessive singular)
televizorlarimning (genitive plural possessive)
televizorimga (dative possessive singular)
televizorlarimga (dative plural possessive)
televizorimni (accusative definite possessive singular)
televizorlarimni (accusative definite plural possessive)
televizorimda (locative possessive singular)
televizorlarimda (locative plural possessive)
televizorimdan (ablative possessive singular)
televizorlarimdan (ablative plural possessive)
televizorimdek (possessive singular)
televizorlarimdek (plural possessive)
televizoring (nominative possessive singular)
televizorlaring (nominative plural possessive)
televizoringning (genitive possessive singular)
televizorlaringning (genitive plural possessive)
televizoringga (dative possessive singular)
televizorlaringga (dative plural possessive)
televizoringni (accusative definite possessive singular)
televizorlaringni (accusative definite plural possessive)
televizoringda (locative possessive singular)
televizorlaringda (locative plural possessive)
televizoringdan (ablative possessive singular)
televizorlaringdan (ablative plural possessive)
televizoringdek (possessive singular)
televizorlaringdek (plural possessive)
televizori (nominative possessive singular)
televizorlari (nominative plural possessive)
televizorining (genitive possessive singular)
televizorlarining (genitive plural possessive)
televizoriga (dative possessive singular)
televizorlariga (dative plural possessive)
televizorini (accusative definite possessive singular)
televizorlarini (accusative definite plural possessive)
televizorida (locative possessive singular)
televizorlarida (locative plural possessive)
televizoridan (ablative possessive singular)
televizorlaridan (ablative plural possessive)
televizoridek (possessive singular)
televizorlaridek (plural possessive)
televizorimiz (nominative possessive singular)
televizorlarimiz (nominative plural possessive)
televizorimizning (genitive possessive singular)
televizorlarimizning (genitive plural possessive)
televizorimizga (dative possessive singular)
televizorlarimizga (dative plural possessive)
televizorimizni (accusative definite possessive singular)
televizorlarimizni (accusative definite plural possessive)
televizorimizda (locative possessive singular)
televizorlarimizda (locative plural possessive)
televizorimizdan (ablative possessive singular)
televizorlarimizdan (ablative plural possessive)
televizorimizdek (possessive singular)
televizorlarimizdek (plural possessive)
televizoringiz (nominative possessive singular)
televizorlaringiz (nominative plural possessive)
televizoringizning (genitive possessive singular)
televizorlaringizning (genitive plural possessive)
televizoringizga (dative possessive singular)
televizorlaringizga (dative plural possessive)
televizoringizni (accusative definite possessive singular)
televizorlaringizni (accusative definite plural possessive)
televizoringizda (locative possessive singular)
televizorlaringizda (locative plural possessive)
televizoringizdan (ablative possessive singular)
televizorlaringizdan (ablative plural possessive)
televizoringizdek (possessive singular)
televizorlaringizdek (plural possessive)
televizoridek (possessive)
televizorlaridek (possessive)

Borrowed from Russian телеви́зор (televízor).


televisión

Ixo ye la televisión.

tele

the programs broadcast via the medium of television


televisión

Iso é a televisión.


televisión

From tele- + visión, calque of French télévision.

Tengo un televisor antiguo en mi estudio.

(countable) television set, TV set, television receiver, television, (colloquial) telly (a device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form)


cabecera

→ Hiligaynon: kabesera

→ Tagalog: kabisera

From cabeza (“head”) + -era. Compare Portuguese cabeceira.

(television, film) opening credits, intro, title sequence


programa

Learned borrowing from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).

lbor

/pɾoˈɡɾɐ̃.mɐ/

/pɾoˈɡɾɐ̃.mɐ/

/pɾuˈɡɾɐ.mɐ/

[pɾuˈɣɾɐ.mɐ]

/pɾuˈɡɾɐ.mɐ/

[pɾuˈɣɾɐ.mɐ]

(television, radio) performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television; programme


programa

→ Chavacano: programa

Borrowed from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).


phaser

* (science fiction): For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons).
* (phase modulation): phase + -er

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

His oddly reserved nature stands out [...]. Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill.

A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers.

1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:

Giolitti's Gold Key art is widely admired, [...] and this is a terrific opportunity to pick up a page—set your phasers on bid.

2004, Hertiage Signature Auction #811, page 185:

I said, "Set phasers on be-a-bastard."

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).


culebrot

L'única dona els despatxava rere la barra; quan no li demanaven res s'entretenia amb el culebrot sud-americà que feien a la tele.

2019, Xevi Sala Puig, No tornaran vius, Columna CAT, →ISBN:

a melodramatic television or radio series on the lives of a group of people; a soap opera


televisor

Un televisor inútil / Eléctrica compañía / La radio a todo volumen / Y una prisión que no es mía

1973, “Cuando Ya Me Empiece a Quedar Solo”, in Confesiones de Invierno, performed by Sui Generis:


docudrama

/ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/

Coordinate term: docufiction

In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction.

1999, Alan Rosenthal, editor, Why Docudrama?: Fact-fiction on Film and TV, SIU Press, →ISBN, page xv:

And docudramas would be the perfect epitaph because, though Norman Kingsley Mailer dreamed of being the monarch of the American novel, he was finally the king of faction, the man whose greatest books, a nightmare for any librarian hoping neatly to classify as fiction or non-fiction, consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to storytelling as invention.

2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:

“Docudrama” is by its nature a confusing genre—neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance.

2008 December 30, Bob Sommer, “The Education of David Frost”, in CounterPunch:

Fenny Compton featured in the recent TV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It was where the first meeting of postmasters took place in 2009, organised by sub-postmaster Alan Bates to begin mounting a fight for justice in the now well-publicised Post Office scandal.

2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:

A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.

dokudraama

drama that combines elements of documentary and drama


soundtrack

The sound (especially the music) component of a movie, video game, etc.

banda sonora

the sound (especially the music) component of a movie


soundtrack

soundtrack (nominative singular)
soundtracki (nominative plural)
soundtracku (genitive singular)
soundtracków (genitive plural)
soundtrackowi (dative singular)
soundtrackom (dative plural)
soundtrack (accusative singular)
soundtracki (accusative plural)
soundtrackiem (instrumental singular)
soundtrackami (instrumental plural)
soundtracku (locative singular)
soundtrackach (locative plural)
soundtracku (singular vocative)
soundtracki (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English soundtrack.

ubor

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures)

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (the sound (especially the music) component of a movie)

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (recording of such music for sale)


expulsar

es-verb

expulsar (first-person singular present expulso, first-person singular preterite expulsé, past participle expulsado)

expulso (first-person present singular)
expulsé (first-person preterite singular)
expulsado (participle past)
expulsar (infinitive)
expulsando (gerund)
expulsado (masculine participle past singular)
expulsada (feminine participle past singular)
expulsados (masculine participle past plural)
expulsadas (feminine participle past plural)
expulso (first-person indicative present singular)
expulsas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
expulsás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
expulsa (indicative present singular third-person)
expulsamos (first-person indicative plural present)
expulsáis (indicative plural present second-person)
expulsan (indicative plural present third-person)
expulsaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
expulsabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
expulsaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
expulsábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
expulsabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
expulsaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
expulsé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
expulsaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
expulsó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
expulsamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
expulsasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
expulsaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
expulsaré (first-person future indicative singular)
expulsarás (future indicative second-person singular)
expulsará (future indicative singular third-person)
expulsaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
expulsaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
expulsarán (future indicative plural third-person)
expulsaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
expulsarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
expulsaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
expulsaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
expulsaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
expulsarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
expulse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
expulses (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
expulsés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
expulse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
expulsemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
expulséis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
expulsen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
expulsara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
expulsaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
expulsara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
expulsáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
expulsarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
expulsaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
expulsase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
expulsases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
expulsase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
expulsásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
expulsaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
expulsasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
expulsare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
expulsares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
expulsare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
expulsáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
expulsareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
expulsaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
expulsa (imperative informal second-person singular)
expulsá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
expulse (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
expulse (imperative singular third-person)
expulsemos (first-person imperative plural)
expulsad (imperative plural second-person)
expulsen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
expulsen (imperative plural third-person)
expulses (imperative negative second-person singular)
expulse (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
expulse (imperative negative singular third-person)
expulsemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
expulséis (imperative negative plural second-person)
expulsen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
expulsen (imperative negative plural third-person)
expulsarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
expulsarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
expulsarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
expulsarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
expulsarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
expulsaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
expulsarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
expulsarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
expulsarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
expulsarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
expulsarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
expulsarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
expulsarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
expulsarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
expulsaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
expulsarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
expulsarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
expulsarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
expulsándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
expulsándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
expulsándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
expulsándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
expulsándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
expulsándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
expulsándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
expulsándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
expulsándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
expulsándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
expulsándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
expulsándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
expulsándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
expulsándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
expulsándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
expulsándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
expulsándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
expulsándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
expúlsame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
expúlsalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
expulsame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
expulsate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
expulsale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
expulsanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
expulsales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
expulsame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
expulsate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
expulsalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
expulsala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
expulsanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
expulsalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
expulsalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
expúlseme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
expúlsele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlsese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlsenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
expúlseles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlseme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
expúlselo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlsela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlsese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlsenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
expúlselos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
expúlselas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
expulsémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
expulsémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
expulsémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
expulsémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
expulsémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
expulsémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
expulsémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
expulsémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
expulsémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
expulsémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
expulsémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
expulsémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
expulsadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
expulsadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
expulsadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
expulsaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
expulsadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expulsadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
expulsadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
expulsadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
expulsadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
expulsaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
expulsadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expulsadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
expúlsenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
expúlsenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
expúlsenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
expúlsenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
expúlsense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

(transitive, reality television) to vote out, eliminate

(transitive, soccer, sports) to send off, dismiss (show someone a red card)


Dalek

Dalek
Doctor Who
Genesis of the Daleks
I, Davros
Terry Nation
The Daleks

Coined by Terry Nation in 1963 for his script of The Mutants (later retitled "The Daleks"), the second serial of the first season of Doctor Who. Accounts of how he devised the word vary. Within the Doctor Who universe, the word is supposed to be related to the name of the people from whom the Daleks evolved, either the Kaleds (as according to later serial Genesis of the Daleks) or the Dals (as in The Daleks), or to derive from a word meaning "gods" in their (fictional) language, in which the sacred "Book of Predictions" is written. According to the I, Davros audio fiction the book reads "...and on that day, men will become as gods", with the last word pronounced "Dal-eks".

'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.'

1964, David Whitaker, Dr. Who and the Daleks, chapter 6 (based on the film script Dr. Who and the Daleks by Milton Subotsky, based itself on the tele-script The Mutants/The Daleks by Terry Nation)

[…] what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice".

1987, Barry Norman, The Movie Greats, page 144:

This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek.

p. 1996, Together with English Core, fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., page 234

My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek, but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident.

2000, Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii

One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek, dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders, […]

2003, Siân Preece, “Country Cooking Countdown”, in Scottish Girls About Town, published 2004, page 19:

Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!'

2006, Gareth Roberts, chapter 9, in I Am a Dalek:

Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek with about three stock phrases... Remember, Daleks always want world domination but they always lose.

a. 2010, Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2, page 333

And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit.

2011, Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land, page 166:

(science fiction) A member of a species of extraterrestrial cyborg mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and their fanatical obsession with exterminating other, non-Dalek beings.


línea

→ Tagalog: linya

Borrowed from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liña, still used in archaic modern Spanish. Cognate with Portuguese linha, Galician liña, and Catalan línia and llinya.

bor+

party line (an established policy that politicians should adhere to)


dramedy

en-noun

dramedy (countable and uncountable, plural dramedies)

(uncountable) A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.


mockumentary

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.

2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]

2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:

(film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.


cable box

(television) A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.

(television) A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.

(television) A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV.


situation comedy

situation comedy (plural situation comedies)

situation comedies (plural)
as sitcom (abbreviation)

[…] in a time of peril and opportunity, the old complacent, unbalanced fare of action-adventure and situation comedies is simply not good enough.

1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:

(comedy, television) An episodic comedy radio or television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation with the same set of characters.

情景喜劇 /情景喜剧

episodic comedy radio or television program — see also sitcom


seer

seeren (definite singular)
seere (indefinite plural)
seerne (definite plural)


iconoscope

an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells


baja

baja (nominative singular)
baje (nominative plural)
bai (genitive singular)
baj (genitive plural)
bai (dative singular)
bajom (dative plural)
baję (accusative singular)
baje (accusative plural)
bają (instrumental singular)
bajami (instrumental plural)
bai (locative singular)
bajach (locative plural)
bajo (singular vocative)
baje (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Baie, from French baie.


small screen

Jane Smith made her small-screen debut in 1998, appearing as a patient in a hospital drama.

"Marvel’s attempts to conquer TV as comprehensively as it has done cinema continues with what might be its most distinctive small-screen effort yet."

2018, Ferran Adrià, “What's on Netflix and Amazon this month - July 2018”, in The Guardian:

(broadcasting) The broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen); by extension, the television programs themselves.


droid

Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”), coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1927) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.

coin

"Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd.

2006, Shane Bolks, Reality TV Bites: […], New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 16:

(chiefly US, derogatory) A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.


DVR

digital video recorder
digital video recorder#English

(television) Initialism of digital video recorder.


género

(music, film, theater, television, literature) genre


dilithium

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Fifty years later and it seems like we should—I don’t know if dilithium crystals are out there—but, you know, we should be getting some breakthroughs.

2016 October, Scott Dadich, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.


tomacco

A tomato plant grafted onto a tobacco plant.


televangelist

Pastor Walton had spent several years learning from the televangelist host of Success-N-Life, Robert Tilton, at his Bible school in Texas.

2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

A religious minister (often a Christian priest or minister) who devotes a large portion of his or her ministry to television broadcasts to a regular viewing audience.


pup

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:

Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.

2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23:

(film, television) A kind of small spotlight.


fade in

(film, television) A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.


fade in

en-verb

fade in (third-person singular simple present fades in, present participle fading in, simple past and past participle faded in)

fades in (present singular third-person)
fading in (participle present)
faded in (participle past)
faded in (past)

Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline

2024, Jackie Evancho (lyrics and music), “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla:

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.


stunt double

(film, television) A type of body double: a skilled stand-in used for dangerous film or video sequences such as jumping out of a building, leaping from vehicle to vehicle, and fight sequences.


fade out

(film, television) A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.


fade out

fade out (third-person singular simple present fades out, present participle fading out, simple past and past participle faded out)

fades out (present singular third-person)
fading out (participle present)
faded out (participle past)
faded out (past)

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from a cut to black in a movie.


fallout

en-noun

fallout (countable and uncountable, plural fallouts)

(radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.


televisie

nl-noun

televisie f (plural televisies, diminutive televisietje n)

televisies (plural)
televisietje (diminutive neuter)

→ Caribbean Hindustani: televisie

→ Caribbean Javanese: télévisi

desctree

→ Indonesian: televisi
→ Cia-Cia: televisi
→ Iban: televisi
→ Javanese: ꦠꦺꦭꦺꦮ꦳ꦶꦱꦶ (télévisi)
→ Malay: televisi

→ Saramaccan: televísi

→ Sranan Tongo: teilefisi


write out

en-verb

write out (third-person singular simple present writes out, present participle writing out, simple past wrote out, past participle written out)

writes out (present singular third-person)
writing out (participle present)
wrote out (past)
written out (participle past)

“Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday.

2019 February 20, Sopan Deb, “Fox Stands by Jussie Smollett: ‘He Is Not Being Written Out of the Show’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, chiefly television) To exclude (a character in a TV show, etc.) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).


ster

nl-noun

ster f (plural sterren, diminutive sterretje n)

sterren (plural)
sterretje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: ster

Negerhollands: ster

→ Indonesian: seter

From Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

(television, Netherlands) short advertisement


conduttore

it-noun

conduttore m (plural conduttori, feminine conduttrice)

conduttori (plural)
conduttrice (feminine)

conduttrice radiofonica

(television, radio) host (of a TV program etc.)


post-production

en-noun

post-production (usually uncountable, plural post-productions)

(cinematography, television) The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.

postproducció

stages of film production happening between the actual filming and the completed film


special effect

(film, television) An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.


series finale

The term came into use in American television in the early 1990s, as a variation of the term season finale. Prior to that, closing episodes were originally called the "final episode" or "last episode".

The promotional or advertisement term used to describe the final episode of a television program, usually a situation comedy or a drama.

系列結局 /系列结局

the final episode of a television series


television program

television program (plural television programs)

Rosie likes the television program about fairies.

(television) The content of an individual television broadcast.

program televiziv

the content of an individual television broadcasting


reprise

repetition, reiteration
(television) a repeat, rerun


sous-titre

(cinematography, television, used more in plural) subtitle (textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)

sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants

(cinematography, television, used more in plural) caption (a piece of text appearing on screen as subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, and it describe dialogues and sound for viewers who cannot hear it)

(cinematography, television, used more in plural) closed caption


wind-up

(television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.


сапуница

sapunica (romanization)
сапуница (indefinite singular)
сапуници (indefinite plural)
сапуницата (definite singular unspecified)
сапуниците (definite plural unspecified)
сапуницава (definite proximal singular)
сапунициве (definite plural proximal)
сапуницана (definite distal singular)
сапуницине (definite distal plural)
сапунице (singular vocative)
сапуници (plural vocative)


backstory

From back- (prefix meaning ‘in, into, or towards the past’) + story.

prefix

What’s the backstory of our new colleague?

These backstories cast the characters' behavior in a new light: of course Gertrude would promptly marry the man who saved her from abuse; of course Ophelia would be desperate and indiscreet in seeking Hamlet's love.

2004 January 15, Kelly Kleiman, “Her side of the story [review of Ophelia by Bryony Lavery, performed by the Camenae Ensemble Theatre Company]”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

Inexplicably, and at great risk to the integrity of the movie, the filmmakers have burdened him with a psychological back story pulled out of a folder in some studio filing cabinet. Why does [Willy] Wonka spend his days confecting sweets?

2005 July 15, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “Looking for the candy, finding a back story [review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-08:

Agent Lyla: Enough back story! / Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Actually, that's not, uh … that's not really a back story, it's just expositional flashback. It doesn't, uh, have any childhood trauma, it's doesn't really inform who he is, it's not … it's just flashback. There's a difference. It's subtle, but there's a difference.

2013 March 1, Kaz [i.e., Kazimieras Gediminas Prapuolenis], Kim Roberson, Aliki Theofilopoulos Grafft, John Mathot, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire):

Prince Harry may yet turn out to be the crown’s best insurance policy. By marrying Meghan Markle, he is linking royalty with a 21st-century celebrity who has a backstory that many people in Britain can identify with.

2017 December 27, “Editorial: The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-29:

The previous experiences and life of a person, specifically (narratology, especially in film, television) a character in a dramatic work.


Buffyverse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse.

2009, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Annette Holba, Media and the Apocalypse, page 77:

2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46,
In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome.

We can hardly be surprised when Buffy and Satsu find what warmth they can, as Willow does with her demon lover, in an intercut sex scene of the kind which typically precedes an apocalypse in the Buffyverse (#15, p. 26). Scenes like this confirm Em McAvan's point that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).

2010, Lewis Call, “Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics”, in Erin B. Waggoner, editor, Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays, page 115:

(fandom slang) The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


teleprompter

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/ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/

From tele- + prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.

Ahem ... GRBLB BLABT UNT MIT SPEEB!! OOT PIFFOO BLABOO... [pause] Would someone please give the Teleprompter a swift kick...

1984 April 20, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (comic):

He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.


cromulent

en-adj

cromulent (comparative more cromulent, superlative most cromulent)

more cromulent (comparative)
most cromulent (superlative)

A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism and nonce word coined by American television writer David X. Cohen (born 1966) for “Lisa the Iconoclast”, a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons. The ending resembles corpulent, temulent and other Latinate adjectives (derived from -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”)).

coin

Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.
Ms. Hoover: I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word.
[…]
Principal Skinner: He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.

1996 February 18, David X. Cohen, “Lisa the Iconoclast”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 16, production code 3F13:

Nerdcore could rise up, it could get elevated.
Oh, and wouldn’t all of those tough rappers hate it
if the nerdcore rose up and got elevated.
We consider the possibleness of this not overstated.
And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word;
every syllable injected is intended to be the one you heard
(an absurd juxtaposition of mission and goal).

2005 August 27, MC Frontalot (lyrics and music), “Nerdcore Rising”, in Nerdcore Rising:

He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor.

2006 April 10, “Obituaries and in memoriams: Benjamin Sidney Linton”, in The Charlotte Observer:

Of course, you may encounter a new program that doesn't work reliably with UNC paths, and this is a perfectly cromulent workaround.

2008, David A. Karp, “Users and Security”, in John Osborn, Laurel R. T. Ruma, editors, Windows Vista Annoyances (Tips, Secrets and Solutions), Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 505:

There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for certain models and assumptions.

2008, Alan M. Polansky, “Connections and Comparisons”, in Observed Confidence Levels: Theory and Application, Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, →ISBN, →OL, section 7.3 (Multiple Comparisons), page 216:

How well does this function work? For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent: […]

2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Don Stewart, “Functional Programming”, in Mike Loukides, editor, Real World Haskell (Code You Can Believe In), Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 86:

(humorous) Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.


time shifting

(television) The practice of network affiliates from different time zones of making television programs/programmes available at multiple times during the day.


upfront

Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.

2007 May 17, Bill Carter, “As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains”, in New York Times:

(television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season


Epcot

Acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow


Jedi Master

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The highest of orders in the Jedi Order of the Star Wars universe, similar to a bishop.

(humorous) Respectful term of address for an expert in a particular field.


anchorman

From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.

(television, radio) The main host of a television or radio program, particularly one relating to the broadcast of news.

مُذِيع أَخْبَار

muḏīʕ ʔaḵbār


Star Trek

en-adj

Star Trek (comparative more Star Trek, superlative most Star Trek)

more Star Trek (comparative)
most Star Trek (superlative)

Sounds very Star Trek, but Virtual Reality technology exists right now.

1992, Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →OL, page 110:

'This is very Star Trek,' Bryan pipes up as he examines the sketches of the space suits.

2002, Eddie Rowley, Westlife on Tour, Ebury, published 2011, →ISBN, →OL:

Older vampires learned how to dissemble and reassemble their bodies in a way that was very Star Trek.

2007 July 3, Michele Bardsley, Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN, →OL, page 121:

Such portfolios lie on the so-called efficient frontier, which sounds very Star Trek, and is shown in Exhibit 12.2.

2008 August 4, David M. Darst, The Little Book that Saves Your Assets: What the Rich Continue to Do to Stay Wealthy in Up and Down Markets, Hoboken: Wiley, →ISBN, →OL, page 154:

The next century will be more Star Trek than anyone could have imagined. All the untapped channels and stations or frequencies (apps you can download) in the brain will become the new final frontier to explore.

2012 August 29, D. Crawford, Nirvana in the Garden of Eden: The Quantum Leap and Evolution of 2012, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OL, page 33:

Futuristic, particularly with respect to things similar in appearance or effect to technology in the Star Trek franchise.


teaser

→ German: Teaser

(television) A brief portion of a television episode shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.


teaser

teaser (nominative singular)
teasery (nominative plural)
teasera (genitive singular)
teaserów (genitive plural)
teaserowi (dative singular)
teaserom (dative plural)
teaser (accusative singular)
teasery (accusative plural)
teaserem (instrumental singular)
teaserami (instrumental plural)
teaserze (locative singular)
teaserach (locative plural)
teaserze (singular vocative)
teasery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English teaser.

(film, marketing, television) teaser (short acting scene preceding the actual lead of a film or television series)


tele

Ixo ye la tele.


adó

adók (plural)
adó (nominative singular)
adók (nominative plural)
adót (accusative singular)
adókat (accusative plural)
adónak (dative singular)
adóknak (dative plural)
adóval (instrumental singular)
adókkal (instrumental plural)
adóért (causal-final singular)
adókért (causal-final plural)
adóvá (singular translative)
adókká (plural translative)
adóig (singular terminative)
adókig (plural terminative)
adóként (essive-formal singular)
adókként (essive-formal plural)
adóban (inessive singular)
adókban (inessive plural)
adón (singular superessive)
adókon (plural superessive)
adónál (adessive singular)
adóknál (adessive plural)
adóba (illative singular)
adókba (illative plural)
adóra (singular sublative)
adókra (plural sublative)
adóhoz (allative singular)
adókhoz (allative plural)
adóból (elative singular)
adókból (elative plural)
adóról (delative singular)
adókról (delative plural)
adótól (ablative singular)
adóktól (ablative plural)
adóé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
adóké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
adóéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
adókéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
adóm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
adóim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
adód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
adóid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
adója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
adói (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
adónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
adóink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
adótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
adóitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
adójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
adóik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

ad (“to give”) + -ó (present-participle suffix)


subtitle

Coordinate term: intertitle

Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.

1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

(cinematography, television) Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.


cloaking device

en-noun

cloaking device (plural cloaking devices)

1968. Coined by D. C. Fontana in the script for the Star Trek episode The Enterprise Incident.

Spock: "I believe the Romulans have developed a cloaking device which renders our tracking sensors useless."

1968, The Enterprise Incident (Star Trek), season 3, episode 2, Dorothy Catherine Fontana (actor):

Captain Needa: "They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device."

1980, The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, and George Lucas (actors):

I put out my hand and touched the warm surface of the camouflaged Rolls-Royce. I was going to ask Mycroft if I could have the cloaking device fitted to my Speedster but I was too late; enthused by my interest he had trotted off to a large roll-top bureau and was beckoning me over excitedly.

(science fiction) A device which renders a person or thing invisible.


redshirt

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Redshirt (college sports)
Star Trek: The Original Series
Starfleet
redshirt (stock character)

Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uninformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

(US, sports) A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.

Sensing danger, Captain Kirk decided to beam down to the surface with Spock, McCoy, and a couple of redshirts.

I am not a goddamn redshirt! I have a purpose!

2017, 42m, in 12 Monkeys, season 3, episode 6:

(fiction, science fiction, fandom slang) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.

(US, military) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.

As armoured personnel carriers rumbled on to Bangkok's deserted streets, thousands of troops fanned out in a cordon across the city, surrounding the redshirts' fortified protest camp.

2010 May 19, Ben Doherty, “Thai soldiers arrest protest leaders in bloody 'final crackdown'”, in The Guardian:

Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).


redshirt

en-verb

redshirt (third-person singular simple present redshirts, present participle redshirting, simple past and past participle redshirted)

redshirts (present singular third-person)
redshirting (participle present)
redshirted (participle past)
redshirted (past)

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Being asked whether I was going to be redshirted had some status associated with it.

2004, George R. Mills -, A View from the Bench, →ISBN:

The university decided to redshirt the freshman linebacker to give him an extra year to build up his bulk.

(US, collegiate sports) To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.

Hillman, who had come to Indiana without a scholarship (he now had one) from a Los Angeles suburb, wanted to redshirt so that he would have two years of eligibility left after Alford graduated. Smith didn't want to redshirt, he wanted to play.

2012 -, John Feinstein, Season on the Brink, →ISBN, page 62:

(US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.


HDR

en-noun

HDR (countable and uncountable, plural HDRs)

(photography) Initialism of high dynamic range.


bajka

pl-noun

bajka f (diminutive bajeczka, augmentative baja)

bajeczka (diminutive)
baja (augmentative)
bajka (nominative singular)
bajki (nominative plural)
bajki (genitive singular)
bajek (genitive plural)
bajce (dative singular)
bajkom (dative plural)
bajkę (accusative singular)
bajki (accusative plural)
bajką (instrumental singular)
bajkami (instrumental plural)
bajce (locative singular)
bajkach (locative plural)
bajko (singular vocative)
bajki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bajьka. By surface analysis, bajać + -ka.

fairy tale (a story containing imaginary events)


Fantasyland

en-noun

Fantasyland (countable and uncountable, plural Fantasylands)

Perhaps capitalized under the influence of Walt Disney's Fantasyland theme park areas, which are noted for containing imagery relating to fairy tales.

If your dream depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build their dream on reality take a very different approach to dreams than do people who live in Fantasyland.

2009, John C. Maxwell, Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It, page 50:

Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have become a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.

2007, Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, page 28:

On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.

2003, Richard G. Lipsey, Christopher Ragan, Economics, page 327:

A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, page 341:

Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.

1997, Jay Gummerman, Chez Chance, page 174:

Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.

1986, Elma Schemenauer, Hello Edmonton, page 15:


skrin

skrins (nominative plural)
skrin (nominative singular)
skrins (nominative plural)
skrina (genitive singular)
skrinas (genitive plural)
skrine (dative singular)
skrines (dative plural)
skrini (accusative singular)
skrinis (accusative plural)
o skrin! (singular vocative)
o skrins! (plural vocative)
skrinu (predicative singular)
skrinus (plural predicative)


barney

Etymology unknown. Often incorrectly thought to be Cockney rhyming slang from Barney Rubble (“trouble”, from the character Barney Rubble on The Flintstones), it actually dates back to the 19th century and its origin is unknown.

unk

Etymology unknown

You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]

2015, Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 209:

(film, television) Synonym of blimp (“soundproof cover for a video camera”)


sound stage

Coordinate term: silent stage

Filmed entirely on a sound stage, with the exception of a single cutaway exterior shot (reproduced exactly in the Swedish version) , the film has all the earmarks of the "canned theatre" style: minimal camera movement[…]

1992, Robert B. Altman, Sound Theory, Sound Practice, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 145:

(film, television) A soundproof room or building used for the production of movies or of television programmes.


blanking

en-noun

blanking (countable and uncountable, plural blankings)

Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.

2001, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 73:

(television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.


rotoscope

(film, television, visual effects) A technique in which animators trace live-action movement frame by frame.


soapy

en-adj

soapy (comparative soapier, superlative soapiest)

soapier (comparative)
soapiest (superlative)

From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).

The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.

2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:

This Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing. Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss – not least in the atrocious scenes featuring Ghost Diana[.]

2023 November 16, Lucy Mangan, “The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


asema

asema (nominative singular)
asemat (nominative plural)
asema (accusative nominative singular)
asemat (accusative nominative plural)
aseman (accusative genitive singular)
asemat (accusative genitive plural)
aseman (genitive singular)
asemien (genitive plural)
asemain (genitive plural rare)
asemaa (partitive singular)
asemia (partitive plural)
asemassa (inessive singular)
asemissa (inessive plural)
asemasta (elative singular)
asemista (elative plural)
asemaan (illative singular)
asemiin (illative plural)
asemalla (adessive singular)
asemilla (adessive plural)
asemalta (ablative singular)
asemilta (ablative plural)
asemalle (allative singular)
asemille (allative plural)
asemana (essive singular)
asemina (essive plural)
asemaksi (singular translative)
asemiksi (plural translative)
asematta (abessive singular)
asemitta (abessive plural)
asemin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
asemani (nominative singular)
asemani (nominative plural)
asemani (accusative nominative singular)
asemani (accusative nominative plural)
asemani (accusative genitive singular)
asemani (accusative genitive plural)
asemani (genitive singular)
asemieni (genitive plural)
asemaini (genitive plural rare)
asemaani (partitive singular)
asemiani (partitive plural)
asemassani (inessive singular)
asemissani (inessive plural)
asemastani (elative singular)
asemistani (elative plural)
asemaani (illative singular)
asemiini (illative plural)
asemallani (adessive singular)
asemillani (adessive plural)
asemaltani (ablative singular)
asemiltani (ablative plural)
asemalleni (allative singular)
asemilleni (allative plural)
asemanani (essive singular)
aseminani (essive plural)
asemakseni (singular translative)
asemikseni (plural translative)
asemattani (abessive singular)
asemittani (abessive plural)
asemineni (comitative plural)
asemasi (nominative singular)
asemasi (nominative plural)
asemasi (accusative nominative singular)
asemasi (accusative nominative plural)
asemasi (accusative genitive singular)
asemasi (accusative genitive plural)
asemasi (genitive singular)
asemiesi (genitive plural)
asemaisi (genitive plural rare)
asemaasi (partitive singular)
asemiasi (partitive plural)
asemassasi (inessive singular)
asemissasi (inessive plural)
asemastasi (elative singular)
asemistasi (elative plural)
asemaasi (illative singular)
asemiisi (illative plural)
asemallasi (adessive singular)
asemillasi (adessive plural)
asemaltasi (ablative singular)
asemiltasi (ablative plural)
asemallesi (allative singular)
asemillesi (allative plural)
asemanasi (essive singular)
aseminasi (essive plural)
asemaksesi (singular translative)
asemiksesi (plural translative)
asemattasi (abessive singular)
asemittasi (abessive plural)
aseminesi (comitative plural)
asemamme (nominative singular)
asemamme (nominative plural)
asemamme (accusative nominative singular)
asemamme (accusative nominative plural)
asemamme (accusative genitive singular)
asemamme (accusative genitive plural)
asemamme (genitive singular)
asemiemme (genitive plural)
asemaimme (genitive plural rare)
asemaamme (partitive singular)
asemiamme (partitive plural)
asemassamme (inessive singular)
asemissamme (inessive plural)
asemastamme (elative singular)
asemistamme (elative plural)
asemaamme (illative singular)
asemiimme (illative plural)
asemallamme (adessive singular)
asemillamme (adessive plural)
asemaltamme (ablative singular)
asemiltamme (ablative plural)
asemallemme (allative singular)
asemillemme (allative plural)
asemanamme (essive singular)
aseminamme (essive plural)
asemaksemme (singular translative)
asemiksemme (plural translative)
asemattamme (abessive singular)
asemittamme (abessive plural)
aseminemme (comitative plural)
asemanne (nominative singular)
asemanne (nominative plural)
asemanne (accusative nominative singular)
asemanne (accusative nominative plural)
asemanne (accusative genitive singular)
asemanne (accusative genitive plural)
asemanne (genitive singular)
asemienne (genitive plural)
asemainne (genitive plural rare)
asemaanne (partitive singular)
asemianne (partitive plural)
asemassanne (inessive singular)
asemissanne (inessive plural)
asemastanne (elative singular)
asemistanne (elative plural)
asemaanne (illative singular)
asemiinne (illative plural)
asemallanne (adessive singular)
asemillanne (adessive plural)
asemaltanne (ablative singular)
asemiltanne (ablative plural)
asemallenne (allative singular)
asemillenne (allative plural)
asemananne (essive singular)
aseminanne (essive plural)
asemaksenne (singular translative)
asemiksenne (plural translative)
asemattanne (abessive singular)
asemittanne (abessive plural)
aseminenne (comitative plural)
asemansa (nominative singular)
asemansa (nominative plural)
asemansa (accusative nominative singular)
asemansa (accusative nominative plural)
asemansa (accusative genitive singular)
asemansa (accusative genitive plural)
asemansa (genitive singular)
asemiensa (genitive plural)
asemainsa (genitive plural rare)
asemaansa (partitive singular)
asemiaan (partitive plural)
asemiansa (partitive plural)
asemassaan (inessive singular)
asemassansa (inessive singular)
asemissaan (inessive plural)
asemissansa (inessive plural)
asemastaan (elative singular)
asemastansa (elative singular)
asemistaan (elative plural)
asemistansa (elative plural)
asemaansa (illative singular)
asemiinsa (illative plural)
asemallaan (adessive singular)
asemallansa (adessive singular)
asemillaan (adessive plural)
asemillansa (adessive plural)
asemaltaan (ablative singular)
asemaltansa (ablative singular)
asemiltaan (ablative plural)
asemiltansa (ablative plural)
asemalleen (allative singular)
asemallensa (allative singular)
asemilleen (allative plural)
asemillensa (allative plural)
asemanaan (essive singular)
asemanansa (essive singular)
aseminaan (essive plural)
aseminansa (essive plural)
asemakseen (singular translative)
asemaksensa (singular translative)
asemikseen (plural translative)
asemiksensa (plural translative)
asemattaan (abessive singular)
asemattansa (abessive singular)
asemittaan (abessive plural)
asemittansa (abessive plural)
asemineen (comitative plural)
aseminensa (comitative plural)

[ˈɑ̝s̠e̞mɑ̝]

(radio, television) station (broadcasting entity)


black-and-white television

en-noun

black-and-white television (countable and uncountable, plural black-and-white televisions)

Retronym for television, coined after the invention of colour television to refer specifically to the type of television existing before then.

A television set that displays only monochrome images.


SDR

SDR (countable and uncountable, plural SDRs)

(television, retronym) Initialism of standard dynamic range.


colour television

colour television (countable and uncountable, plural colour televisions)

tlb

(British spelling, Australia, New Zealand)

(countable) A television set that displays images in colour.


evening wrap

(television) The last of a series of news programmes broadcast in the evening.


Folge

Folge (genitive)
Folgen (plural)
Folge (nominative singular)
Folgen (definite nominative plural)
Folge (genitive singular)
Folgen (definite genitive plural)
Folge (dative singular)
Folgen (dative definite plural)
Folge (accusative singular)
Folgen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German volge, from Old High German folga, from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn.

die dritte Folge


DTR

(television) Initialism of digital terrestrial receiver.


טלוויזיה

he-noun

טֶלֶוִיזְיָה

טֶלֶוִיזְיוֹת

טלוויזיה / טֶלֶוִיזְיָה • (televízya) f (plural indefinite טלוויזיות / טֶלֶוִיזְיוֹת, singular construct טלוויזית־, plural construct טלוויזיות־)

טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (canonical)
televízya (romanization)
טלוויזיות (indefinite plural)
טֶלֶוִיזְיוֹת (indefinite plural)
טלוויזית־ (construct singular)
טלוויזיות־ (construct plural)

From English television, from tele- (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “distant”)) + vision (from Latin visio (“vision”)). Use of ־יה suffix is ultimately of Slavic origin.

(countable) television (an electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form)


honey wagon

(film, television) A type of multi-room trailer with toilet facilities for use by film and television crews.


utility pole

A utility pole shone yellow like a sick bruise high up over them.

2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 34:

A tall cylinder, often made from the trunk of a tree, usually topped by a cross beam, used by a public utility to carry wire, cable or conduit through the air, for the transportation of electricity, cable television, telephone or similar services.


reality television

Live, Reality Television

1991, Fred D'Ignazio, "D'Iversions", COMPUTE, November 1991, COMPUTE Publications, page G–22

television programming
television program

(television) A genre of television programming portraying one or more people who are not professional actors and depicting their reactions to given stimuli or goals.


MOTD

55 years in, save for the odd hiatus when ITV rather rudely claimed the exclusive top-flight highlights rights, MOTD represents the then, now and seemingly forever for the free-to-air armchair football fan.

2019 July 26, Adam Hurrey, “55 years in, the culturally bulletproof Match of the Day can handle the latest threat from its rivals”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(sports, television) Initialism of Match of the Day: a British football-themed television programme introduced in 1964.


MCS

(television) Initialism of medium close shot.


迪斯尼樂園

ㄉㄧˊ ㄙ ㄋㄧˊ ㄌㄜˋ ㄩㄢˊ

Дисыни лэюань

/ti³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

/ti³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/


迪士尼樂園

ㄉㄧˊ ㄕˋ ㄋㄧˊ ㄌㄜˋ ㄩㄢˊ

Дишини лэюань

/ti³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

/tɪk̚² siː²² nei̯²¹ lɔːk̚² jyːn²¹/

/ti³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

/tɪk̚² siː²² nei̯²¹ lɔːk̚² jyːn²¹/


come on

en-verb

come on (third-person singular simple present comes on, present participle coming on, simple past came on, past participle come on)

comes on (present singular third-person)
coming on (participle present)
came on (past)
come on (participle past)

Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.

(transitive) To encounter, discover; to come upon.

I was going to turn off the TV, but my favorite show came on.

A salsa song came on the radio.

(transitive, intransitive) To be broadcast (through a device), or (of a broadcast) to begin playing.

The new garden is coming on nicely.

But she looked a lady, Paul declared, as much as Mrs. Major Moreton, and far, far nicer. The family was coming on. Only Morel remained unchanged, or rather, lapsed slowly.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To progress, to develop; to come along.


come on

→ Portuguese: camone

Come on, George! You can win!

Synonym of let's go, a cheer or expression of support, encouragement, &c.


wraparound host

en-noun

wraparound host (plural wraparound hosts)

(television) A host or hostess who appears in very short segments before and after a television show.


sandpit

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

From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.

Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.

1991, British Broadcasting Corporation, “The Annual Report & Accounts”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

[…] the commentaries on the battle given by Peter Snow with the aid of a model of the theatre of war, known as the 'Sandpit'.

1992, Richard Hamilton, Simon Wilson, “Richard Hamilton: 17 June - 6 September 1992, Tate Gallery”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

[…] a conflict that did not fit so easily into the television studios, with their super-patriotic anchormen, their verbose ex-generals, their model tanks and their bloodless sandpits.

2005, Robert Fisk, “The Great War for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(television) A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.


toss-up question

toss-up question (plural toss-up questions)

(television, radio) During a classroom quiz or game show, a question posed to two or more opponents where both are able to answer by signaling, and depending on the rules, the one that responds with a correct answer either takes control of the game or proceeds to advance to a subsequent round.


box set

(film, television) A set with three walls, allowing the camera to film in a room-like space.


borganism

The word and concept are derived from The Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.

(rare, idiomatic, science fiction, politics) Some forms of government.


guest star

(television) An actor on a television program who stars in one, or a few, episodes.


presenter

master of ceremonies
master of ceremonies

(radio, television) Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.

aanbieder

someone who presents a broadcast programme


Britcom

(informal, television) A British sitcom.


高清電視

ㄍㄠ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

гаоцин дяньши

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/kou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ tiːn²² siː²²/

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/kou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ tiːn²² siː²²/

high-definition television
high-definition television

(television) high-definition television; HDTV


高畫質電視

ㄍㄠ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄓˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

ㄍㄠ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄓˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

гаохуачжи дяньши

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/kou̯⁵⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵ t͡sɐt̚⁵ tiːn²² siː²²/

/kou̯⁵⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵ t͡sɐt̚⁵ tiːn²² siː²²/


高清晰度電視

ㄍㄠ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄒㄧ ㄉㄨˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

гао цинсиду дяньши

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵ tu⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/kou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵ tou̯²² tiːn²² siː²²/


ident

In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.

(radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.


breakout character

breakout character (plural breakout characters)

(film, television, literature) A character who becomes the most popular, talked about, and imitated, helping to establish the narrative's popularity.


aftercare

事後照顧 /事后照顾

affection given to a partner after a BDSM activity

[…] bring the aftercare we do in the UK to the US and see if our approach can get the same great results on both sides of the Atlantic.

2010, Jeremy Kyle, You Couldn't Make It Up:

(television) Emotional support offered by the programme makers to a person who has appeared on a stressful television show.


雪花

/ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/

/ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/

/ɕiɪʔ³³ ho⁴⁴/

/ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/

/ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/

/ɕiɪʔ³³ ho⁴⁴/


upscale

en-adj

upscale (comparative more upscale, superlative most upscale)

more upscale (comparative)
most upscale (superlative)

This strategy [of rotating the garage with respect to the street] has become popular in many upscale housing developments nationwide primarily becaues it de-emphasizes the garage and makes the house look more like their traditional counterparts from the turn of the last century.

2002, Sarah Susanka, Not So Big Solutions for Your Home:

In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.

2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

(US) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class; upmarket.


दूरदर्शन

hi-noun

दूरदर्शन • (dūrdarśan) m (Urdu spelling دوردرشن)

dūrdarśan (romanization)
دوردرشن (Urdu)
दूरदर्शन (direct singular)
दूरदर्शन (direct plural)
दूरदर्शन (oblique singular)
दूरदर्शनों (oblique plural)
दूरदर्शन (singular vocative)
दूरदर्शनो (plural vocative)

Etymology tree
Hindi दूर (dūr)
Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-
Sanskrit दृश् (dṛś)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Sanskrit -अन (-ana)
Sanskrit दर्शन (darśana)bor.
Hindi दर्शन (darśan)
Hindi दूरदर्शन (dūrdarśan)
Sanskritic formation from दूर (dūr, “far”) + दर्शन (darśan, “seeing, vision, sight”). Calque of English television.

sa-af

/d̪uːɾ.d̪əɾ.ʃən/

[d̪uːɾ.d̪ɐɾ.ʃɐ̃n]


basher

(television, film) A kind of small floodlight.


treknobabble

/ˈtɹɛknəʊˌbæbəl/

I'd sooner trust treknobabble for an explanation than any thing you say.

1997 September 24, $teve2, “Re: SUNBURN : If you were not watching GITM”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

So you think up something like Voyager meets some Romulans stranded in the DQ, or some treknobabble takes down the command staff and Seven assumes command.

1999 December 29, Bozo the Proctologist, “Re: Bad Voyager Plots”, in alt.tv.star-trek.voyager (Usenet):

Even if they won using the power of treknobabble, this force ratio does not show the audience how mighty and dangerous the Imperial warships are […]

2003 December 17, Kazuaki Shimazaki, “The More Detailed Critique”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):

A kind of technobabble particular to the Star Trek universe, with a particularly heavy emphasis on configurations of pseudoscientific particles and waves.


UTSL

A pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in Star Wars.

(Internet) Initialism of use the source, Luke.


piloto

pt-noun

piloto m or f by sense (plural pilotos, feminine piloto or pilota, feminine plural pilotos or pilotas)

pilotos (plural)
piloto (feminine)
pilota (feminine)
pilotos (feminine plural)
pilotas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Italian piloto, from Late Latin pillottus.

(television) pilot (sample episode of a proposed TV series)


novela

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”), from Latin novella, feminine of novellus (“new; fresh”), from novus (“new”), Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

soap opera (a type of television or radio series)


one-shot

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-one-shot.wav

And with the added bonuses of color and videotape coupled with the disadvantages of higher production costs, a lot of syndie producers forsook weekly series in favor of one-shot specials — and it didn't take long for the airwaves to become thick with one-shots.

2001, Hal Erickson, Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987, →ISBN, page 106:

The Mummy belongs in a chapter devoted to one-shots as its progeny are different breeds rather than direct sequels.

2013, B. Forshaw, British Gothic Cinema, →ISBN:

This spectacular, free one-shot also includes original short stories from Sean Rubin's upcoming, enchanting dinosaur tale, Bolivar; Jim Henson's fantasy classic, Labyrinth (an Archaia original graphic novelby Ted Naifeh, Adrianne Ambrose, and Cory Godbey is in the works); and Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos' justice-seekin' boy hereo, Cow Boy.

2014, Louis Zampini, A Father's Guide to Comics, →ISBN:

The one-shot trend continued in Japan, where fans are used to paying what Western audiences consider absurdly high prices for anime, but this hampered them from Western release until companies began to bundle one-shots together.

2015, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition, →ISBN:

(television, film, comics) A television program, film, or comic book that is not part of a series.


flagging

en-noun

flagging (countable and uncountable, plural flaggings)

väsyminen

tiring or exhausting, such as after exercise

Because older TVs are not able to respond quickly enough to the horizontal time-base errors introduced from the VCR, a VCR connected to an older TV may cause severe bending or flagging at the top of the picture yet appear to operate normally on a newer TV set.

1998, Robert Brenner, Gregory Capelo, VCR Troubleshooting and Repair, page 158:

(television) The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.


dubbed

This shows that audiovisual constraints do not always result in loss, but might also contribute to the pretended spontaneity of dubbed dialogue.

2016, Andrea Esser, Iain Robert Smith, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Media Across Borders: Localising TV, Film and Video Games, page 137:

In theaters, most foreign films are not dubbed, while animated films and some films meant for children offer a dubbed version.

2018, George Pierce, Introducing Translational Studies, page 181:

The dubbed statement, however, seems to reflect different connotations.

2019, Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán, The Prosody of Dubbed Speech: Beyond the Character's Words, page 121:

(film, television, video games) Having had the original soundtrack replaced with a synchronized translation.


電視

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (電視):
* → Japanese: 電(でん)視(し) (denshi)
* → Korean: 전시(電視) (jeonsi)

→ Guiqiong: diɐnsi

desc

→ Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦉᦹᧈ (ṫaen¹ṡue¹)

→ Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦉᦹᧈ (ṫaen¹ṡue¹)

→ Zhuang: densi

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/tiæ̃⁴⁴ ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/

/tʰi̯en⁵⁵ sɨ⁵⁵/

/tieŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾nɛi²⁴²/

/tɛŋ²¹⁻⁴² ɬi²¹/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ si²²/

/tiɛn⁴¹⁻²² si⁴¹/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ si²²/

/tiɛn³³⁻¹¹ si³³/

/tiɛn³³⁻²¹ si³³/

/tiaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ si³⁵/

/dɪ²³ zz̩ʷ¹¹/

/ti̯ẽ⁴⁵ ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/

/ti̯ẽ⁴⁵ sz̩⁴⁵/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

/tiæ̃⁴⁴ ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/

/tʰi̯en⁵⁵ sɨ⁵⁵/

/tieŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾nɛi²⁴²/

/tɛŋ²¹⁻⁴² ɬi²¹/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ si²²/

/tiɛn⁴¹⁻²² si⁴¹/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ si²²/

/tiɛn³³⁻¹¹ si³³/

/tiɛn³³⁻²¹ si³³/

/tiaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ si³⁵/

/dɪ²³ zz̩ʷ¹¹/

/ti̯ẽ⁴⁵ ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/

/ti̯ẽ⁴⁵ sz̩⁴⁵/

上電視

上电视

我喜歡看電視。

我喜欢看电视。

我好鍾意睇電視。

我好钟意睇电视。

television; TV; the small screen (the broadcasting medium)


wraparound

en-noun

wraparound (countable and uncountable, plural wraparounds)

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

(countable, television, radio) A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.


wigwag

From wig (“to wag, waggle”) + wag (“to swing”). The noun is derived from the verb.

com

I parked near a big sound stage building; lamped a red wig-wag signal rocking back and forth to indicate a scene being shot inside. This meant no admittance until the cameras had stopped grinding. Presently a bell jingled and the wig-wag died.

1943 March, Robert Leslie Bellem, “Russian Run-around”, in Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, Wilmington, Del.: Culture Publications, →OCLC; republished as Russian Run-around, [Prineville, Or.]: eStar Books, 2014, →ISBN:

WIG-WAG The red flashing light outside of a stage indicating that filming is going on.

[2002, Michael G. Uva, Sabrina Uva, “WIG-WAG”, in Uva’s Basic Grip Book, updated edition, Boston, Mass.: Focal Press, →ISBN:

Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.

A device that causes one or more lights to flash in a preset pattern.

(film, television) A red light near the door of a sound stage that flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and that all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet; a red-eye.


BBB

a participant in the show Big Brother Brasil


米老鼠

/mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɐi̯¹³ lou̯¹³ syː³⁵/

/mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɐi̯¹³ lou̯¹³ syː³⁵/


テレビ

→ Korean: 텔레비 (tellebi)

テレビ東京

1994 July 16, Isao Takahata, 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ [Heisei Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko], spoken by the main narrator (Sandaimoku Kokontei Shinchō), Toho:

However, the installation of the TV has helped spread the unforeseen interests.

しかし、テレビの設置は思わぬ波紋を広げた。

Shikashi, terebi no setchi wa omowanu hamon o hirogeta.

1996 September 15, Mitsuru Adachi, “帰リ道その２ [The Way Home 2]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 260:

I’m not really panicking right now. Of course this is the first time I’ve been in this situation, but this sort of thing happens on telly and in comics all the time, and it’s called time travel or something.

ぼくは、別にあわててはいなかった。もちろん初めての経験だったけど、ＴＶやまんがではよく起きることだし、タイムスリップや、タイムトリップとかいう言葉も知っていた。

Boku wa, betsu ni awatete wa inakatta. Mochiron hajimete no keiken datta kedo, terebi ya manga de wa yoku okiru koto dashi, taimu surippu ya, taimu torippu to ka iu kotoba mo shitteita.

テレビジョン テレビジョン#Japanese

Clipping of テレビジョン (terebijon, “television”); a TV


croma

(television, film) chromakey, greenscreen


croma

(television, film) chromakey, chroma key


bearding

(television) An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.


Spock

en-proper noun

Spock (countable and uncountable, plural Spocks)

Alternative form: Mr. Spock

This caricature called economic man was not only completely self-centered, he was also entirely rational in all his decisions, whether consuming or investing—a veritable Mr. Spock.

2010, William McDonald Wallace, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Economy: How Liberals and Conservatives Both Got It Wrong, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, page 48:

Phelps's calorie intake may seem superhuman, and his 6' 4", 185-pound body may recall Greek statuary, but fans are also drawn to him by a goofy grin and oversized ears that led to his being called Spock on the school bus.

2008 December 2, “Sportsman of the Year: Michael Phelps”, in Sports Illustrated:

(science fiction) In Star Trek, a Starfleet commander and science officer of the USS Enterprise, especially known for his Vulcan logic, reason, and stoicism and his distinctive pointed ears.


burn off

en-verb

burn off (third-person singular simple present burns off, present participle burning off, simple past and past participle burned off or burnt off)

burns off (present singular third-person)
burning off (participle present)
burned off (participle past)
burned off (past)
burnt off (participle past)
burnt off (past)

(transitive, intransitive, television) To fill (low-value air time) with programming not suitable for its original purpose.


warp factor

From the science-fiction series Star Trek.

(science fiction) A hypothetical figure indicating a space vessel's speed greater than the speed of light.


smell-o-vision

/ˈsmɛləˌvɪʒən/

From smell + -o- (interfix used for ease of pronunciation) + vision, probably popularized by Smell-O-Vision (proper noun) which was recoined in 1959 by Mike Todd Jr. (1929–2002), the American producer of the film Scent of Mystery (1960), as the name of the system invented by the Swiss scientist Hans Laube (1900–1976) used for the film. The term was possibly modelled after terms used in the motion picture industry such as Panavision (a company manufacturing cameras and lenses) and VistaVision (an early widescreen motion picture film format).
The variant spelling smellevision is possibly a blend of smell + television.

affix

"Magnificent!" shouted our supercritical photographer as he leveled his eye at this picture [of a ham]. […] Perhaps "smell-o-vision" is needed to enjoy fully this Easter treat. Or, better still, taste SUNNYFIELD HAM yourself—either smoked or cooked ready-to-eat.

1942 March 30, “We Disagree with the Photographer! [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 12, number 13, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

SMELLEVISION REPLACES TELEVISION! Carl Stalling sez, "It will never work!"

1944 October 28, Michael Sasanoff, Bob Clampett, director, “The Old Grey Hare”, in Merrie Melodies, Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros. Pictures; Vitaphone Corporation, →OCLC:

New model cars come out each year; the split-T and the soccer kick are new football offensive weapons. Black-and-white, then color TV and pretty soon smell-o-vision—that's progress.

1966 March, Joseph A. Brunton, Jr., “A Few Words from the Chief: ‘Is the Good Turn Obsolete?’”, in Robert Hood, editor, Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys, volume LVI, number 3, New Brunswick, N.J.: Boy Scouts of America, →OCLC, page 46, column 3:

Other techno-mancers forecast fax in the home, "smellevision" (television sets equipped to emit appropriate odors for each scene), and luminescent paints that store sunlight during the day and glow at night. These new products would surely brighten the future.

1991, Michael Brian Schiffer, “A Portable Depression”, in The Portable Radio in American Life, Tucson, Ariz.; London: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 116:

The film includes some marvelous 3-D special effects as well as flashing lights, a bubblemaker, smell-o-vision, and a surprise from the skies as well as a live actor and a cannon.

1994, Corey Sandler, Econoguide 1995: Walt Disney World, Epcot and Universal Studios Florida, Chicago, Ill.: Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 140:

Meanwhile, in far-off laboratories of the Military-Infotainment Complex (to advance upon Stuart Moulthrop's phrase) at Disney or—yea, verily, even unto—Apple, some scientists work on synchronous smell-o-vision with real-time simulated fragrance degradation shifting from fresh ink to old mold; […]

1995, Michael Joyce, “‘So Much Time, so Little to Do’: Empowering Silence and the Electric Book”, in Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (Studies in Literature and Science), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 97:

So, until Netscape comes up with Smell-o-vision, reading about and looking at food on the Web will have to stave off those hunger pains.

1999, Nora Paul, Margot Williams, “Food Resources on the Web”, in Paula J. Hane, editor, Great Scouts! Cyberguides for Subject Searching on the Web, Medford, N.J.: CyberAge Books, Information Today, →ISBN, part I (Life & Times), page 25:

Perhaps someday the SML (smelly markup language) standard will make it possible to connect a smell-o-vision peripheral to my FireWire port, and I'll be able to sniff the circle of boiled dough [a bagel] on the screen.

1999 July 1, Thomas H[ayes] Davenport, “ThinkTank: The Net Changes (Almost) Nothing”, in Abbie Lundberg, editor, CIO, volume 12, number 18, Framingham, Mass.: CIO Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3:

What will happen to our spiritual senses when the next step is taken, i.e. when rituals are performed purely in the realm of the virtual? […] [I]f the full sensory experience of the ritual is diminished by its reduction to the text, sound, and imagery now possible on the Web (I don't think we're ready for networked smell-o-vision), what in turn may be gained by working within these limitations, and what are the possibilities of transcending them?

2005, Stephen D. O’Leary, “Utopian and Dystopian Possibilities of Networked Religion in the New Millennium”, in Morten T. Højsgaard, Margit Warburg, editors, Religion and Cyberspace, Abington, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Coming to Terms with Religion and Cyberspace), page 43:

The dream of layering smells onto movie-watching is nearly as old as movie-watching itself. This history is a pileup of interesting failures, technical experiments, and overweening optimism in smell-o-vision’s eventual appeal. […] Most interestingly, people who’d bought tickets to see these movies seemed sneakily pleased when smell-o-vision failed.

2021, Jude Stewart, “Introduction: Why a Book on Smell?”, in Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page xvii:

(originally and chiefly US, film, television, humorous) A (supposed) technology consisting of cinematography with the addition of olfaction, often portrayed as far-fetched or futuristic.

Mike Todd Jr.
Panavision
Scent of Mystery
VistaVision


ridare

it-verb

ridàre (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) ridò, first-person singular past historic ridièdi or ridiédi or ridétti or (traditional) ridètti, past participle ridàto, first-person singular future ridarò, first-person singular subjunctive ridìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive ridéssi, second-person singular imperative ridài or ridà', auxiliary avére or (sometimes when intransitive) èssere)

ridàre (canonical)
ridò (first-person present singular)
ridièdi (first-person historic past singular)
ridiédi (first-person historic past singular)
ridétti (first-person historic past singular)
ridètti (first-person historic past singular traditional)
ridàto (participle past)
ridarò (first-person future singular)
ridìa (first-person singular subjunctive)
ridéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ridài (imperative second-person singular)
ridà' (imperative second-person singular)
avére (auxiliary)
èssere (auxiliary intransitive sometimes)
ridàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
èssere (auxiliary)
ridàndo (gerund)
ridànte (participle present)
ridàto (participle past)
ridò (first-person indicative present singular)
ridài (indicative present second-person singular)
ridà (indicative present singular third-person)
ridiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
ridàte (indicative plural present second-person)
ridànno (indicative plural present third-person)
ridàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ridàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ridàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ridavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ridavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ridàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ridièdi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
ridiédi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
ridétti (first-person historic indicative past singular)
ridètti (Traditional first-person historic indicative past singular)
ridésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
ridiède (historic indicative past singular third-person)
ridiéde (historic indicative past singular third-person)
ridétte (historic indicative past singular third-person)
ridètte (Traditional historic indicative past singular third-person)
ridémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
ridéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
ridièdero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
ridiédero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
ridéttero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
ridèttero (Traditional historic indicative past plural third-person)
ridarò (first-person future indicative singular)
ridarài (future indicative second-person singular)
ridarà (future indicative singular third-person)
ridarémo (first-person future indicative plural)
ridaréte (future indicative plural second-person)
ridarànno (future indicative plural third-person)
ridarèi (conditional first-person singular)
ridarésti (conditional second-person singular)
ridarèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
ridarébbe (conditional singular third-person)
ridarémmo (conditional first-person plural)
ridaréste (conditional plural second-person)
ridarèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
ridarébbero (conditional plural third-person)
ridìa (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ridìa (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ridìa (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ridiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ridiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ridìano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
ridéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ridéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ridésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ridéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ridéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ridéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ridài (imperative second-person singular)
ridà' (imperative second-person singular)
ridìa (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ridiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
ridàte (imperative plural second-person)
ridìano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
ridàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
ridìa (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ridiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
ridàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
ridìano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)


buis

nl-noun

buis f (plural buizen, diminutive buisje n)

buizen (plural)
buisje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: buis

→ Caribbean Javanese: bès, bèis

→ Indonesian: bis

→ West Frisian: buis

From Middle Dutch buse, of uncertain origin, plausibly representing an umlauted byform *beusju of Proto-West Germanic *beusu (“rush, bentgrass”) which gives Dutch bies. For the "television" sense, compare English tube.