Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A film of a transmitted television program.
- transitive verb To make a film of (a transmitted television program).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
kinetoscope , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an early
television receiver tube - noun a
recording of atelevision broadcast made byfilming thescreen of amonitor ; atelerecording
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This 1959 live TV drama, which survives on DVD via a kinescope, is one of the few that made it to the screen.
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This 1959 live TV drama, which survives on DVD via a kinescope, is one of the few that made it to the screen.
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And the only way to record a television production was what's called a kinescope, which was -- a movie camera sat in front of a-- of a TV screen and produced very poor quality images.
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Look up the word, "kinescope," and you will see that suggestion is really going back to the future.
Art Brodsky: Nancy Reagan's Internet Solution for Whining Newspapers 2009
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Up to this point, only grainy film-based kinescope footage was available.
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For entertainment in the hospital, Reitzel provided a gramophone and a small portable kinescope; prison officials placed a large hall at the secretary's disposal two times a week for performances.
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He listened on the radio, but hired a kinescope company to record the game for later viewing.
Dreaming of the 1960 World Series? Bing Crosby will bring it to you 2010
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But the scratchy kinescope replay makes it appear as if Mays simply ran back and caught the ball, not unlike any ESPN Web Gem shown every night of the season.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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One of my favorite VHS tapes is of a kinescope of a 1952 World Series game between the Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
An Umpire Speaks Up About the Length of Yankees-Red Sox Games 2010
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For inmates too sick to move, Reitzel organized concerts and kinescope shows for their barracks.
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