TELEVISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does televise mean? 

• TELEVISE (verb)
  The verb TELEVISE has 1 sense:

1. broadcast via television

  Familiarity information: TELEVISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEVISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they televise    ... he / she / it televises   
Past simple: televised   
Past participle: televised   
-ing form: televising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broadcast via television

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

telecast; televise

Context example:

The Royal wedding was televised

Hypernyms (to "televise" is one way to...):

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

Domain category:

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "televise"):

colorcast (broadcast in color)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

television (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)

television (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)