单词 | televiewing |
释义 | televiewingn. Originally U.S. The action of watching television.In quot. 1931 as a proposed alternative name for television itself. ΚΠ 1931 N.Y. Times 19 Apr. ix. 10/1 The idea of dispensing [with] the word television itself and substituting televiewing. 1935 Observer 21 Apr. 17/7 A special room is set aside for televiewing. 1959 New Statesman 4 July 10/1 People still like and are permitted to laugh, and occasionally break off from televiewing to have a go at the printed word. 1976 Listener 23 Sept. 366/2 My own loss of televiewing had no effect on the number of times I hit anybody. 2003 W. Douglas Television Families i. 9 Televiewing occurs amid the clutter of everyday family life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). televiewingadj. That watches television. ΚΠ 1939 N.Y. Times 14 May xi. 8/3 To discover the opinions of the televiewing audience the BBC circulated questionnaire forms to 4,000 regular viewers. 1960 20th Cent. Dec. 541 A considerable impression was made..upon the televiewing public. 1982 Nature 9 Dec. 468/2 Channel 4..seems to have won the allegiance of a mere four per cent of the British televiewing audience. 2013 Evening Standard (Nexis) 25 Feb. 55 Neither Jorge Larrionda nor an assistant was capable of making the judgment obvious to a televiewing universe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1931adj.1939 |
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