Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context uncountable English) A colour system of transmitting and receiving television signals. 2 (context countable English) A television set that displays images in colour. n. 1 (context uncountable English) A colour system of transmitting and receiving television signals. 2 (context countable English) A television set that displays images in colour.
WordNet
n. a television that transmits images in color [syn: color television, color television system, colour television system, color TV, colour TV]
Usage examples of "colour television".
At the end of the room a VCR was taping from a colour television set.
Mona with confidence sent Oliver off to join Cassidy and began to be seduced during the next few weeks by the refrigerator full of food, by the colour television, and by not having to put coins in a meter to pay for electricity to cook with, or to keep warm.
In the lounge, the sixty-inch colour television was the only illumination.
Radio - which at least demands a certain use of imagination - gave way to black and white television, then to colour television.
A coal fire glowed in the grate, a colour television glowed on the counter.
By progressively turning the colour-balance knob of a colour television set, we can convince ourselves that there is a graded series of progressive improvement from black and white to full colour vision.
There was also a colour television, three crates of beer, a shining electric kettle and a telephone.
Refrigerator cartons were best, or soda machines, but once he'd done it with the box from a thirty-five-inch colour television.
We are familiar with the miracle of colour television, just as we can measure the speed of light and calculate the consequences of the theory of relativity.
We ate better, we had proper furniture, a phone and, soon, a colour television.
They could look over their panels and see the rocket through the windows, or check the colour television screens that showed the same picture.
Afterwards they sat in the Combination Room over coffee and cigars, glancing occasionally at the large colour television set that had been installed for the occasion.
There was a colour television set, telephones in brass with ivory mouth-pieces and copies of the national newspapers and magazines resting aristocratically on small leather-covered tables.
There was a colour television set, telephones in brass with ivory mouth-pieces and copies of the national newsÂ.
Petrol bombs make a spectacular show on colour television, Mr Meyer, but they seldom do more than blister the paint of a Saracen armoured car.