television screen
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftelevisionandscreen
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television
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈtel.ɪ.vɪʒ.ən/us/ˈtel.ə.vɪʒ.ən/
a device shaped like a box with a screen that receives electrical signals and changes them into moving images and sound, or the method or business of sending images and sound by ...
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screen
noun[C]
uk/skriːn/us/skriːn/
a flat surface in a cinema, on a television, or as part of a computer, on which pictures or words ...
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(Definition oftelevisionandscreenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftelevision screen
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Infants sat on their parent's lap facing thetelevisionscreen.
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The ravages of coast and countryside, the toll on vegetation, crops and buildings, were mediated by thetelevisionscreen.
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Initially, thetelevisionscreenwas covered, forcing the par ticipants to base their comments solely on the interviewees' voices.
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Moreover, infants' previous experience with these images would have occurred in a very similar context, on atelevisionscreen.
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The incorrect responses were randomly distributed without revealing a preference for either action or for a particulartelevisionscreen.
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They faced a largetelevisionscreen, approximately 6 meters high, on which each group could see projected video images of their interlocutors.
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The insert containing the mother's image was covered on thetelevisionscreen.
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The ultraviolet light emitted from a xenon discharge plasma is converted into fluorescence, which provides an image on atelevisionscreen.
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The well-known predilection of thetelevisionscreenfor close-ups is more kindly to instrumentalists in small groups or individually, but not to full orchestras or singers.
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Proper ties of visual evoked potentials to onset of movement on atelevisionscreen.
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While this might leave the audience uncertain of the music's status, it points to the increasing irrelevance of music's status in relation to the world constructed on thetelevisionscreen.
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Motor imitation of conspecifics as well as of human models was reported, both for behaviors illustrated live and for behaviors appearing only on atelevisionscreenwatched by the dolphin.
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I have seen some of these age-old films that have been bought and shown on thetelevisionscreen.
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Nobody wants to look at an orchestra on atelevisionscreen.
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Remarks of that kind give one an insight into what people think about what is said, as it were, on thetelevisionscreen.
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This is the absolute and ultimate zero of what can be committed on thetelevisionscreen.
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I realise, of course, that the largest theatrical audience these days sits before thetelevisionscreen.
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He even showed viewers a little table on thetelevisionscreento reinforce his case.
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I saw a sophisticatedtelevisionscreenthat had been developed to design shoes.
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They believe this because they have seen it on thetelevisionscreen, when their television sets have been working.
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