单词 | televisor |
释义 | televisorn. 1. An apparatus for transmitting and receiving television pictures in which a video signal is generated by the action of light on photoconductive cells after having passed through a revolving perforated disk, this signal controlling the brightness of a neon lamp which, in conjunction with a second disk, projects an image; (originally and esp.) a device of this kind designed and patented by John Logie Baird. Now historical.Partly mechanical instruments like these were largely superseded by purely electronic television equipment during the 1930s. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] televisor1926 televiser1927 1926 Glasgow Herald 11 Jan. 7/1 The Televisor. 1926 Glasgow Herald 8 Oct. 9/1 The scene in front of the transmitting televisor is turned into electrical impulses. 1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come xiii. 119 A man stands up and switches on a televisor and everybody listens. 1984 Financial Times 13 June 17/6 A rare John Logie Baird televisor of around 1930 sold for £1,760. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 29 July 26 Did John Logie Baird carry on paying his rates in Helensburgh while he was working on his televisor in Soho? 2. a. A person who works in the television industry, e.g. as a presenter. Now rare.In quot. 1929: a person involved in the development and promotion of television. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > broadcaster on television televisor1929 telecaster1932 veejay1965 voice-over1966 talking head1968 1929 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 6 Oct. 22 e/4 (heading) German ‘televisors’ organize. 1948 Chicago Defender 17 July 9/2 The stars are appearing on the program for Eddie Sullivan, the Broadway columnist and not Sullivan the ‘televisor’ who is the same person. 1966 New Statesman 30 Sept. 497/4 (advt.) Heather Jenner, televisor, broadcaster and writer. b. An organization that makes or broadcasts television programmes. ΚΠ 1936 Financial Times 12 Nov. 3/6 The objects are to carry on the business of..televisors, transmitters, distributors, [etc.]. 1986 Amer. Israelite 16 Oct. 4/1 ABC-TV, the televisor of the playoffs. 2013 Canberra Times (Nexis) 31 Oct. b29 The sponsors probably want something and the televisors want something. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926 |
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