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televise, v.|ˈtɛlɪvaɪz|
[Back-formation from televison on the model of verbs that end in -(v)ise and are related to nouns ending in -(v)ision, such as revise.]
1. a. trans. To transmit (pictures, programmes, scenes, etc.) by television; formerly also, to transmit television pictures of (a person). Also fig.
1927Glasgow Herald 14 Jan. 9/1 The distance over which pictures can be televised. 1928Television Mar. 40/3 The subject who is being ‘televised’ had to face a powerful battery of blinding lights. 1931Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 May 3/4 The first marriage ceremony to be ‘televised’, if that's the word—is a matter of history today. 1939[see interviewer]. 1950Sport 7–11 Apr. 22/2 The Final will definitely not be televised. 1975Observer (Colour Suppl.) 6 Apr. 64 (Advt.), It [sc. a series of books on history] is a ‘programme’ which combines lively and informative reading with vivid illustrations, helpful maps and guides, in such a way that it televises the past for you and your children to understand and enjoy as never before. 1979S. Brett Comedian Dies ix. 95 This..Awards lunch... Big do, being televised. 1983Economist 23 July 24/1 The BBC's Panorama programme on blacks and the police, televised on July 18th.
b. intr. for pass. To be (well, etc.) suited for television presentation.
1930Times 1 Apr. 28/3 Some faces appear to ‘televise’ better than others. 1961G. Millerson Techn. Telev. Production 129 Where an iconoscope camera-tube is used as the pick-up device, film shots of dark scenes may televise better in negative form.
2. intr. To make a television broadcast.
1948L. Birch Something Done (Central Office of Information) 15 Many performers who are under contract to the big music-halls are not allowed to televise. 1957[implied at televising ppl. a.].
Hence ˈtelevised ppl. a.; ˈtelevising vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1932Jrnl. Television Soc. I. 107/1 The televising of ‘The Man with the Flower in his Mouth’, in July, 1930. 1934Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers LXXV. 86/2 The difference in detail between a good Baird televized picture and the cathode-ray picture. 1935Times 1 Feb. 8/4 No doubt the televising of sporting and other public events will have a wide appeal. 1946Astounding Sci. Fiction July 63/1 A man he had seen many times before in televised addresses. 1951M. Ehrlich Big Eye i. 34 The blonde began to take off her robe in a kind of televised strip tease. 1957D. J. Enright Apoth. Shop 221 True pleasure—our moralizing, politicizing and..televising generation has thrown that overboard. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. p. xxix/2 Miss Edwards opens her story with the televising of Punchbowl Farm and the Thornton family. 1978S. Brill Teamsters iii. 80 Fumbling through televised testimony like this to protect Hoffa was worth it to Fitzsimmons. |