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
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
The N.F.L. picture tube would seem to be totally bright.
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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