WordNet
n. a receiver that displays television images; "the British call a tv set a telly" [syn: television, television set, tv, tv set, idiot box, boob tube, telly, goggle box]
Usage examples of "television receiver".
He was watching Long Tom, who was fooling around his television receiver.
The instrument he handed over on permanent loan to the World History Foundation was nothing more than a television receiver with an elaborate set of controls for determining coordinates in time and space.
Captain Tucker's television receiver, Tommy knew, was an AC-DC portable, and he was sorely tempted to ask if it could be brought down to the messroom where there was more seating available--until he recalled that the TV set was bolted to a bulkhead.
The hemispherical control room in which they lay was an enormous multi-screened television receiver which could duplicate the starry heavens either in view-aft or view-forward at the selection of the pilot.
He did not know the thing was the scanning lens of Doc's amazingly compact television receiver.
It was a general order to all Americans to be present at a television receiver at eight each evening in order to note any instructions that their rulers might have for them.
Chiun said and righteously turned on his special television receiver which stored on tape concurrently running daytime serials, an art form that Chiun called ".
Such things as lights, full or individual, as well as a satellite-fed television receiver, radio, and stereo gear, could be controlled by her voice in much the same way as she controlled her chair.