telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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(verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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telecom | (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecommunication |
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telecommerce | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telemarketing, teleselling |
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telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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(noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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teleconferencing | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconference |
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telefax | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: facsimile, fax |
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telefilm | (noun) a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
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telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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telegnostic | (adjective) obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms | - |
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telegram | (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: wire |
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telegraph | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraphy |
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(verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, wire |
telegrapher | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist |
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telegraphese | (noun) language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams | - |
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telegraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph | - |
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(adjective) having the style of a telegram with many short words left out | - |
telegraphically | (adverb) in a short and concise manner | Synonyms: tersely |
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telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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telegraphy | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraph |
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(noun) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire | - |
telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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telemark | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
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telemarketing | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, teleselling |
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telemeter | (noun) any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer | - |
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telemetered | (adjective) of or pertaining to telemetry | - |
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telemetry | (noun) automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means | - |
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telencephalon | (noun) the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus | - |
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teleological | (adjective) of or relating to teleology | - |
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teleologist | (noun) advocate of teleology | - |
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teleology | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes | - |
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teleost | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost fish, teleostan |
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teleostan | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost, teleost fish |
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telepathic | (adjective) communicating without apparent physical signals | - |
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telepathise | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathize |
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telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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(noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
telepathize | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathise |
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telepathy | (noun) apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions | Synonyms: thought transference |
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telephone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: phone, telephone set |
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(noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephony |
(verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, ring |
telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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telephonic | (adjective) of or relating to telephony | - |
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telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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telephoto | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephotograph |
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telephotograph | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephoto |
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(noun) a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance | - |
telephotography | (noun) photography using a telephoto lens | - |
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(noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance | - |
teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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teleprocessing | (noun) data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities | Synonyms: distributed data processing, remote-access data processing |
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telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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telescope | (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: scope |
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(verb) make smaller or shorter | - |
(verb) crush together or collapse | - |
telescoped | (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: shortened |
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telescopic | (adjective) having parts that slide one within another | - |
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(adjective) capable of discerning distant objects | - |
(adjective) visible only with a telescope | - |
telescopically | (adverb) in a telescopic manner | - |
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telescopy | (noun) the art of making and using telescopes | - |
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teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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televise | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: telecast |
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television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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(noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
(noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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telex | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex machine |
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(verb) communicate by telex | - |