televise
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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to put (a programme) on television
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(tr) to transmit (a programme, signal, etc) by television
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have televisedperfect
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has televisedperfect 3rd person singular
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have been televisingperfect progressive
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is televisingprogressive 3rd person singular
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has been televisingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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am televisingprogressive 1st person singular
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are televisingprogressive
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televisessingular 3rd person
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televisingparticiple
Past
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had televisedperfect
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had been televisingperfect progressive
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was televisingprogressive singular
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were televisingprogressive plural
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televisedparticiple
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televisedsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of televise
First recorded in 1925–30; back formation from television
Explanation
You're most likely to televise something if you work at a TV station — to televise is to transmit or broadcast on a television. A high school with a winning basketball team might decide to televise games on a local station so everyone in town can watch them on TV. Judges presiding over trials sometimes allow news channels to televise them, although often they don't. The verb televise grew out of the word television, modeled on verbs like revise and advise. The word television combines tele, "far off" in Greek, and vision, "something seen in the imagination," from a Latin root.
Vocabulary lists containing televise
Common Senses: Vid, Vis ("See")
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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