单词 | telly |
释义 | tellytel‧ly /ˈteli/ ●○○ noun (plural tellies) [countable, uncountable] British English informal Word Origin WORD ORIGINtelly ExamplesOrigin: 1900-2000 televisionEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatortelevision► television Collocations also TV informal the system of broadcasting pictures and sound, or the programmes that are broadcast in this way: · Television brings events like the Olympic games into millions of homes.· the educational uses of televisionwatch television/TV: · Nearly 80% of children watch TV after school.· People who watch a lot of television are more likely to be heavy.on television/TV: · Kids have to learn that toys they see advertised on TV might not be as much fun as they look.television/TV programme/show/series etc: · American television news programs are getting worse and worse.· a description of the fall season's new TV shows ► telly British spoken the programmes that are broadcast on television or your television set: · It's true, I saw it on some show on the telly.watch (the) telly: · You can watch telly after you've done your homework.on telly: · Is there anything good on telly tonight? ► the box British informal /the tube American informal use this to talk about programmes on television or people's television sets: · The hours spent in front of the tube mean that children aren't participating in other forms of entertainment.on the box/tube: · What's on the box? ► the small screen television - use this especially when you are comparing television to films: · I had seen the movie before, but it didn't look as good on the small screen.· It's one of the best shows ever seen on the small screen. WORD SETS► Broadcastingaerial, nounairtime, nounAM, nounantenna, nounatmospherics, nounaudio, adjectiveband, nounBBC, the, beacon, nounbeam, verbBeeb, the, bleep, verbboom, nounboom box, nounBritish Broadcasting Corporation, nounbroadband, nounbroadcast, nounbroadcast, verbcable television, CB, nounCCTV, nounCeefax, nounchannel, nounclosed circuit television, nouncommunications satellite, nouncontrast, noundial, nounDJ, nounexposure, nounflash, verbFM, nounfrequency, nounham, nounHz, interference, nounjam, verbkHz, kilohertz, nounlinkup, nounlive, adjectivelocal radio, nounlong wave, nounloudspeaker, nounLW, mast, nounmedium wave, nounmegahertz, nounMHz, modulate, verbmonitor, nounmono, nounmono, adjectiveNBC, nounnetwork, nounnetwork, verbon-air, adjectiveover, prepositionpresenter, nounprogramming, nounquadraphonic, adjectiveradio, nounradio, verbreceive, verbreceiver, nounreception, nounrepeat, verbrepeat, nounrerun, nounrerun, verbroger, interjectionsatellite, nounsatellite dish, nounsatellite television, nounsaturation, nounscrambler, nounseries, nounset, nounshipping forecast, nounship-to-shore, adjectiveshort wave, nounsignal, nounsignature tune, nounsimulcast, verbSOS, nounsound, nounsound bite, nounsound check, nounstatic, nountelecast, nounTeletext, nountelevise, verbtelevision, nountelevision licence, nountelly, nountime signal, nountrack, verbtransistor, nountransistor radio, nountransmission, nountransmit, verbtransmitter, nountune, verbtuner, nountweeter, nountwo-way, adjectiveUHF, noununscramble, verbveejay, nounvideo, nounvideo, adjectivevideo jockey, nounvolume, nounwaveband, nounwavelength, nounwhite noise, nounwireless, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► see televisionon telly Is there anything good on telly tonight?· It's really weird seeing yourself on telly.· These people wanted to see the Skeldale House they saw on the telly.· You see it on telly, it goes down in sections and crumples in a huge cloud of dust.· She's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly - you know, all slow and graceful like.· I saw it on the telly before I was banged up.· She had seen him on the telly - he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet.· I saw them on telly at my mate's house. ► turn· Once inside No. 23, David turned on the telly.· Crilly turns off the telly and puts on a Billie Holiday record. ► watch· But what would we watch on telly when bowlers finished matches early?· Why do we want to watch traffic jams on telly?· Do the bottom shuffle while watching telly.· I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff.· It seemed like she wasn't really watching the figures on telly though.· She just carries on watching the telly.· The shift finishes at 2.30am, just as Britain is washing up or settling down on the sofa to watch the telly.· They wanted to get home to watch telly. |
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