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TV|tiːˈviː|
Abbrev. of television.
1948Fortune May 82/1 It is not where TV has gone,..but the pace at which it is going that causes all the excitement. 1948Time 25 Oct. 82/2 TV is not only color-blind; its eye is astigmatic. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 722/3 He knows ‘most of the tricks of popular journalism, films, radio, TV’. 1962V. Nabokov Pale Fire 35 The gauzy mockingbird..Returning to her perch—the new TV. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. iv. 47 Is the effect of showing violence in films or on TV to arouse or to satiate aggressive feelings? 1977R.A.F. News 22 June–5 July 2/3 (heading) TVs for hospital.
b. Freq. attrib. and Comb. TV dinner, a prepared frozen meal that needs only to be heated and is suitable for eating while watching television (formerly a proprietary name in the U.S.); TV evangelist orig. U.S. = televangelist; also TV evangelism.
1948Fortune May 83/1 The average capital investment for a TV station is about $375,000. 1950‘A. Gilbert’ Is She Dead Too? vii. 135 That's the best of livin' in a village. It's like livin' on a TV screen. 1953A. Huxley Let. 25 Jan. (1969) 663 One must read 100% in order to be able to leave out 99%, as has to be done in this medium and for a TV audience. 1954TV aerial [see show-off n. (a.) d]. 1954Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 27 July 735/2 C. A. Swanson & Sons, Omaha, Nebr... TV Dinner... For frozen Turkey Dinner, Including Turkey, Dressing, Giblet Gravy, Sweet Potatoes, and Green Peas. 1955Radio Times 22 Apr. 39/3 Gilbert Harding's outspoken autobiography..the frank, personal story of the popular Radio and T.V. personality. 1955Times 9 Aug. 4/5 Mr. Leon Goodman, chairman of T.V. Commercials, Ltd. 1955H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) iii. 26 He's been in two flops on Broadway and in five T.V. shows. 1958New Statesman 5 July 1/2 The argument about the third TV network. 1961P. Frankau Pen to Paper 21 ‘That's it!’ as the T.V. announcer snaps at the winning point of the tennis match. 1961Times 18 May 9/7 One TV antenna. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xvi. 92 A girl featured weekly in a badly made TV series. 1962N. Streatfeild Apple Bough xv. 216 They went all the way to the T/V studio on a bus. 1963H. A. Hargreaves in New Worlds Science Fiction Dec. 62 It would have to be a TV satellite. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin vii. 51 Spectacles swung the TV receiver around so that I couldn't see it. Ibid. x. 66 The very same people who made the great little TV film..paid for by the TV company, N.B.C. 1964J. Masters Trial at Monomoy x. 292 TV dinners, and everything quick frozen, dehydrated and prepacked. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) i. i. 19 If the TV tube fires the right ammunition at the right people it is good. Ibid. ii. xiii. 140 The combined radio and TV channels in the United States. Ibid. ii. xvii. 176 The cartoon is clue to understanding the TV image. Ibid. ii. xxxi. 334 The TV camera does not have a built-in angle of vision like the movie camera. 1969TV licence [see radio licence s.v. radio n. 7]. 1970Koenig & Dixon Children are Watching (1971) i. 6 Inside the stove glinted four TV dinners..nested in silver-aluminum trays,..identical portions of gray pot roast, dinner roll, wrinkled peas and rigid mashed potatoes under foil. Ibid. 7 These dinners..she wheeled across the hall into the TV room. 1974Guardian 23 Mar. 10/6 It was dense, thick, primeval onion soup. But it was not a TV play. 1974Broadcast 11 Nov. 16/3 The bulk of the population..needs effortless entertainment... The theatre mogul, the film-maker, and now the TV programme producer, have found the truth of this platitude. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 49 He filled the micro-refrigerator with TV dinners. 1976B. Bova Multiple Man xix. 209 TV crews were rolling their cameras in. 1976Liverpool Echo 7 Dec. 3/1 The Wirral TV mast saga. For more than two years the B.B.C. have been seeking to erect a 200 ft. mast on Wirral. 1977Washington Post 25 July b1/ Rev. M.G. ‘Pat’ Robertson has changed the style of TV evangelism. Ibid. 29 Apr. b11/3 ‘Rev. Ike’, New York radio and TV evangelist. 1981Hadden & Swann Prime Time Preachers i. 5 Jerry Falwell, another TV evangelist, and his Moral Majority showed up in force at the Republican National Convention. 1986Time 17 Feb. 63/3 Powered by TV evangelism, the Christian right ‘is destined to become the major social movement in America’ during the late 20th century. |