TV

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Etymology 1

Symbol

TV

(metrology) Symbol for teravolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10¹² volts.

Etymology 2

Symbol

TV

(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tuvalu since 1977.
Synonym: TUV (alpha-3)

Alternative forms

T.V.

Etymology

Abbreviation, from television.

Pronunciation

enPR: tē'vēʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌtiːˈviː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (US): (file)
(Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈti.vi/
Rhymes: -iː, (Southern American English) -iːvi

Noun

TV (countable and uncountable, plural TVs)

(colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television.
I saw an ad for that on TV.
- 1985, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (lyrics and music), “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.”, in Hunting High and Low, performed by a-ha:
  Believe me, the sun always shines on TV
(countable) Abbreviation of transvestite.
- 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  She spoke of her male side as her "brother" as do older, more conventional TVs.
- 1986 April 12, David Anderson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
  I am in isolation and am lonely and would like to correspond with TVs, TSs and queens.
- 1996, Forced Womanhood, number 20, page 32:
  TV's who dominate and TV's who are dominated! TV's who are hot, sexy and horny as hell!
(physiology) Initialism of tidal volume.
Initialism of tax value.
(pop culture, music) Initialism of Taylor's Version.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Thai: ทีวี (tii-wii)
→ Vietnamese: ti vi

Translations

abbreviation for television

Afrikaans: TV, T.V.
Assamese: টিভি (tibhi)
Belarusian: ТБ n (TB)
Burmese: တီဗီ (tibi)
Catalan: TV (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電視 / 电视 (zh) (diànshì)
Danish: tv (da) n
Dutch: tv (nl) f, teevee (nl) f
Finnish: TV (fi)
French: télé (fr) f
German: TV (de) n
Gujarati: ટીવી n (ṭīvī)
Hebrew: טלוויזיה (he) f (televizia)
Hindi: टीवी m (ṭīvī)
Ido: TV (io)
Interlingua: TV
Italian: TV (it) f, tivù f
Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi), テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon)
Korean: 텔레비 (tellebi), 티브이 (ko) (tibeu'i), 티비 (tibi), 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 티뷔 (tibwi)
Latvian: TV
Norwegian: TV, teve
Nǀuu: Tiiviisi
Portuguese: TV f, tevê (pt) f
Russian: ТВ (ru) n (TV)
Scottish Gaelic: tbh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ТВ

Roman: TV
Sinhalese: ටීවී (ṭīwī)
Spanish: tele (es), tv f
Swedish: tv (sv), teve (sv)
Tagalog: TV
Telugu: టీ.వీ. (ṭī.vī.)
Thai: ทีวี (th) (tii-wii)
Turkish: TV (tr)
Ukrainian: ТБ n (TB)
Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi)
Walloon: tévé (wa) f
Welsh: teli m
White Hmong: this vis
Yup'ik: tiiviiq

abbreviation for transvestite

Dutch: travo (nl) m
Finnish: transu (fi)
German: Transe (de) f
Swedish: T (sv)

Anagrams

VT, Vt., v.t., vt, vt.

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Etymology

Abbreviation of televisio (“television”)

Noun

TV

TV (abbreviation for television)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Inflection of TV (Kotus type filee)

	singular	plural
nominative	TV	TV:t
genitive	TV:n	TV:iden TV:itten
partitive	TV:tä	TV:itä
accusative	TV TV:n	TV:t
inessive	TV:ssä	TV:issä
elative	TV:stä	TV:istä
illative	TV:hen TV:seen	TV:ihin TV:isiin
adessive	TV:llä	TV:illä
ablative	TV:ltä	TV:iltä
allative	TV:lle	TV:ille
essive	TV:nä	TV:inä
translative	TV:ksi	TV:iksi
abessive	TV:ttä	TV:ittä
instructive	–	TV:in
comitative	–	TV:ineen

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te.ve/
Audio: (file)

Noun

TV f (plural TV)

(North America and Belgium, informal) television
Synonym: télé

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈte.ve/, [ˈt̪e.fe]

Noun

TV (plural TV-TV)

(communication) Initialism of televisi (“television”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): ^**/tivˈvu/^*, ^**/tiˈvu/^*^[1]
Rhymes: -u

Noun

TV f (invariable)

(informal) television
Synonyms: televisione, tivù

References

[1]
TV in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Noun

TV(テレビ) • (terebi)

Abbreviation of テレビ (“TV”).

Alternative forms

tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon

Noun

TV m (definite singular TV-en, indefinite plural TV-er, definite plural TV-ene)

TV (television set)
television (program broadcasting)
Han vil se på TV.
He wants to watch television.

Synonyms

fjernsyn

References

“TV” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈteːˈʋeː/
(Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈtêːˈʋěː]

Noun

TV m (definite singular TV-en, indefinite plural TV-ar, definite plural TV-ane)

TV (television set)
television (program broadcasting)
Dei likar ikkje å sjå på TV.
They don't like to watch television.

Synonyms

fjernsyn

References

“TV” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

tv

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English TV.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛˈfaw/, /tɛˈvu/, /tiˈvi/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -aw, -u, -i
Syllabification: T‧V

Noun

TV f (indeclinable)

television (electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound)
Synonym: telewizja
television (institution engaged in the preparation and transmission of television programs)
Synonym: telewizja
television, television set (electronic device that receives television signals and displays the resulting images on a screen)
Synonyms: pudło, telewizor

Adjective

TV (not comparable, no derived adverb)

(relational, postpositive) televisual; television (electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound)
Synonym: telewizyjny
(relational, postpositive) televisual; television (institution engaged in the preparation and transmission of television programs)
Synonym: telewizyjny
(relational, postpositive) televisual; television, television set (electronic device that receives television signals and displays the resulting images on a screen)
Synonym: telewizorowy

Alternative forms

tevê
tv

Etymology

Initialism of televisão.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈve/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈve/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈbe/ [tɨˈβe]

Noun

TV f (plural TVs)

TV

Noun

TV m (Cyrillic spelling ТВ)

TV

Alternative forms

teve, tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of television, borrowed from English television, attested since 1923.

Noun

TV c

TV
Synonyms: television, televisionsapparat

Holonym: etermedia

Han såg det på TV:en.
He saw it on the TV.

Derived terms

TV-antenn (“TV antenna”)
TV-apparat (“TV set”)
TV-bevakning (“CCTV”)
TV-hus (“TV building; TV station”)
TV-kanal (“TV channel”)
TV-mast (“TV tower”)
TV-program (“TV programme”)
TV-reklam (“TV ad”)
TV-shop (“TV shop”)
TV-station (“TV station”)
TV-studio (“TV studio”)
TV-sändare (“TV broadcaster”)
TV-sändning (“TV broadcast”)

References

Etymology

Borrowed from English TV.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ti˧˧ vi˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ vɪj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ vɪj˧˧] ~ [tɪj˧˧ jɪj˧˧]
Phonetic spelling: ti vi

Noun

(classifier chiếc) TV

Initialism of ti-vi.

Synonyms

vô tuyến truyền hình [無線傳形]
truyền hình (VN)

[1] [1]
TV in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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