A television screen or other visual display terminal.
spectators could only see the action on the field by looking at the stadium's giant telescreen
Example sentencesExamples
They gradually became addicted to the "telescreen" and could no longer tell real life from reality tv etc.
Orwell's Big Brother was merely a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen.
A big "telescreen" upstage is sufficient on the effectively utilitarian and spare set.
For a while, there - while the information overload of my new computer/Internet toys was dominating, in the 1980s and 1990s - the trip to the bookstore was just too much time to take away from my precious telescreen.
In the past when I have described and criticized some outrage perpetrated by the telescreen, one or two of my correspondents have asked me why I waste my time writing about such things - it's just TV!
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
The air in the room was silent and dead as pictures of war flashed across the telescreen.
Her gaze remained fixed on the telescreen.
The telescreen was emphatically not for entertainment.
The two-way telescreen bears a close enough resemblance to flat plasma screens linked to "interactive" cable systems, circa 2003.
The silence of the presses is deafening and the telescreen continues to bleat.
For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position.
Two stories up he passed by the telescreen in the hall.
Orwell's telescreen is now there in your home - on your desktop computer.
On the two occasions I have heard him perform (on the telescreen, I hasten to add), what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing.
Definition of telescreen in US English:
telescreen
nounˈtɛləˌskrinˈteləˌskrēn
A television screen or other visual display terminal.
spectators could only see the action on the field by looking at the stadium's giant telescreen
Example sentencesExamples
The two-way telescreen bears a close enough resemblance to flat plasma screens linked to "interactive" cable systems, circa 2003.
The silence of the presses is deafening and the telescreen continues to bleat.
On the two occasions I have heard him perform (on the telescreen, I hasten to add), what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing.
The air in the room was silent and dead as pictures of war flashed across the telescreen.
The telescreen was emphatically not for entertainment.
For a while, there - while the information overload of my new computer/Internet toys was dominating, in the 1980s and 1990s - the trip to the bookstore was just too much time to take away from my precious telescreen.
Orwell's Big Brother was merely a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen.
Her gaze remained fixed on the telescreen.
Two stories up he passed by the telescreen in the hall.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
Orwell's telescreen is now there in your home - on your desktop computer.
They gradually became addicted to the "telescreen" and could no longer tell real life from reality tv etc.
For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position.
A big "telescreen" upstage is sufficient on the effectively utilitarian and spare set.
In the past when I have described and criticized some outrage perpetrated by the telescreen, one or two of my correspondents have asked me why I waste my time writing about such things - it's just TV!