(television, Canada, UK, Ireland) A device that can record broadcast television programmes, or the images from a video camera, for subsequent playback through a television set.
(television, Canada, UK, Ireland) A device that can record broadcast television programmes, or the images from a video camera, for subsequent playback through a television set.
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(television, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A recording of a television broadcast made while it is being transmitted, especially by filming the picture from a monitor screen; the process of making such a recording.
(UK, Ireland) A text-based information retrieval system using television sets with a suitable decoder; developed by the BBC.
(British, Ireland, Commonwealth) A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.
(British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
(idiomatic, chiefly, US, and, Canada) Television.