picture tube
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of picture tube
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Despite all this, picture tube televisions continue to linger.
From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2018
The replay boards suffer against the standards of today, like entering a hotel room with a small-screen television backed with a giant picture tube.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2013
The N.F.L. picture tube would seem to be totally bright.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carl Lewis in flight, Jackie Joyner-Kersee in extremis are things of beauty: taken apart on the picture tube, they lose all contact with the natural.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube?
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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