T.V.

See also: tv, .tv, tv., and Tv.

Translingual

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Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Symbol

TV

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

Etymology 2

Symbol

TV

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

   Synonym: TUV (alpha-3)

English

Alternative forms

• T.V., teevee, teevy

Etymology

Abbreviation, from television.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tē'vēʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌtiːˈviː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈti.vi/
• Rhymes: -iː, (Southern American English) -iːvi

Noun

TV (countable and uncountable, plural TVs)

1. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television.

   I saw an ad for that on TV.

   • 1985, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.”, in Hunting High and Low, performed by a-ha:

     Believe me, the sun always shines on TV

   • 2023 September 15, Henry T. Casey, “What is USB-C? Here’s everything you need to know”, in CNN‎:

     USB-C isn’t just how many PC laptops are charged; it’s also how the Chromecast With Google TV draws power. It’s also the only USB port in any modern MacBook, and it’s used for charging and data transfer in many Samsung Galaxy phones (dating back to 2016’s infamous Galaxy Note 7).

2. (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!

3. (physiology) Initialism of tidal volume.
4. Initialism of tax value.
5. (pop culture, music) Initialism of Taylor's Version.

Derived terms

• appointment TV
• cable TV
• dish TV
• linear TV
• made-for-TV
• Prestige TV
• slow TV
• TVaholic
• TV black
• TV dinner
• TV evangelism
• TV evangelist
• TV land
• TV programme
• TV rock
• TV talk
• TV white
• VBTV

Descendants

• → Thai: ทีวี (tii-wii)
• → Unami: TV
• → 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 Tamil: டிவி (ṭivi) Telugu: టీ.వీ. (ṭī.vī.) Thai: ทีวี (th) (tii-wii) Turkish: TV (tr) Ukrainian: ТБ n (TB) Unami: TV 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)

See also

• telly

Anagrams

• VT, Vt., v.t., vt, vt.

Finnish

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisio (“television”).

Noun

TV

1. TV (abbreviation for television)

Declension

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

Derived terms

compounds

• maksu-TV
• TV-opas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.ve/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

TV f (invariable)

1. (North America and Belgium, informal) television

   Synonym: télé

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.ve/, [ˈt̪e.fe]

Noun

TV (plural TV-TV)

1. (communication) initialism of televisi (“television”)