kinescope
[ kin-uh-skohp, kahy-nuh- ]
/ ˈkɪn əˌskoʊp, ˌkaɪ nə- /
noun
a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
the motion-picture record of a television program.
verb (used with object), kin·e·scoped, kin·e·scop·ing.
to record (a program) on motion-picture film, using a kinescope.
QUIZZES
HEED THE VOX POPULI, AND TAKE THIS WORD OF THE DAY QUIZ!
Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!
Question 1 of 7
anchorite
Also called kine (for defs 1, 2).
Origin of kinescope
First recorded in 1930–35; formerly trademark
Words nearby kinescope
kinematic pair, kinematic viscosity, kinematics, kinematograph, kinesalgia, kinescope, kineshma, kinesi-, kinesia, kinesiatrics, kinesics
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for kinescope
He phoned an assistant and asked him to kinescope the game off its television broadcast.
British Dictionary definitions for kinescope
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012