bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
channel television channel TV channel | a television station and its programs, a satellite TV channel, surfing through the channels, they offer more than one hundred channels |
church tower | the tower of a church |
clock tower | a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face |
closedircuit television | a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater) |
CN Tower | a tower in Toronto, feet tall for broadcasting widely |
color television colour television color television system colour television system color TV colour TV | a television that transmits images in color |
color tube colour tube color television tube colour television tube color TV tube colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
conning tower | a raised bridge on a submarine, often used for entering and exiting |
conning tower | an armored pilothouse on a warship |
control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
cooling tower | a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant |
Eiffel Tower | a wrought iron tower meters high that was constructed in Paris in , for many years it was the tallest man-made structure |
field-sequential color television field-sequential color TV field-sequential color television system field-sequential color TV system | an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors |
fire tower | a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires |
highise tower block | tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments, `tower block' is the British term for `highise' |
kinescope picture tube television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
Leaning Tower Leaning Tower of Pisa | a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular, construction was begun in |
lookout observation tower lookout station observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
martello tower | a circular masonry fort for coastal defence |
mooring tower mooring mast | a tower for mooring airships |
satellite television satellite TV | a television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth |
Sears Tower | a skyscraper built in Chicago in , feet tall |
shot tower | tower of a kind once used to make shot, molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water |
signal box signal tower | a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains |
supporting tower | a tower that serves to support something |
television television system | a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points |
television antenna tv-antenna | an omnidirectional antenna tuned to the broadcast frequencies assigned to television |
television camera tv camera camera | television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam |
televisionamera tube television pickup tube | a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals |
television equipment video equipment | electronic equipment that broadcasts or receives electromagnetic waves representing images and sound |
television monitor tv monitor | monitor used in a studio for monitoring the program being broadcast |
television receiver television television set tv tv set idiot box boob tube telly goggle box | an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen, the British call a tv set a telly |
television room tv room | a room set aside for viewing television |
television station TV station | station for the production and transmission of television broadcasts |
television transmitter | transmitter that is part of a television system |
tower | a structure taller than its diameter, can stand alone or be attached to a larger building |
Tower of Babel Babel | (Genesis :-) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven, God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another |
Tower of London | a fortress in London on the Thames, used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels |
Tower of Pharos | a great lighthouse ( feet high) built at Alexandria in BC |
tricolor television tube tricolour television tube tricolor tube tricolour tube | a color television tube in which three primary colors are combined to give the full range of colors |
tugboat tug towboat tower | a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships |
water tower | a large reservoir for water |
ivory tower | a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place, he lived in the ivory tower of speculation, they viewed universities as ivory towers |
television telecasting TV video | broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects, she is a star of screen and video, Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done - Ernie Kovacs |
cable television cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
high-definition television HDTV | a television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail |
television program TV program television show TV show | a program broadcast by television |
television news | a television broadcast of news |