Definition of telescreen in US English:
telescreen
nounˈtɛləˌskrinˈteləˌskrēn
A television screen or other visual display terminal.
spectators could only see the action on the field by looking at the stadium's giant telescreen
Example sentencesExamples
- The two-way telescreen bears a close enough resemblance to flat plasma screens linked to "interactive" cable systems, circa 2003.
- The silence of the presses is deafening and the telescreen continues to bleat.
- On the two occasions I have heard him perform (on the telescreen, I hasten to add), what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing.
- The air in the room was silent and dead as pictures of war flashed across the telescreen.
- The telescreen was emphatically not for entertainment.
- For a while, there - while the information overload of my new computer/Internet toys was dominating, in the 1980s and 1990s - the trip to the bookstore was just too much time to take away from my precious telescreen.
- Orwell's Big Brother was merely a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen.
- Her gaze remained fixed on the telescreen.
- Two stories up he passed by the telescreen in the hall.
- The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
- Orwell's telescreen is now there in your home - on your desktop computer.
- They gradually became addicted to the "telescreen" and could no longer tell real life from reality tv etc.
- For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position.
- A big "telescreen" upstage is sufficient on the effectively utilitarian and spare set.
- In the past when I have described and criticized some outrage perpetrated by the telescreen, one or two of my correspondents have asked me why I waste my time writing about such things - it's just TV!