noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A recording of a television broadcast made by filming the screen of a monitor; a telerecording.
2. 2
   a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen wordnet
3. 3
   An early television receiver tube. historical

Verb

1. 1
   To record (a television broadcast) by filming the screen of a monitor. transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms

boom shotcathode-ray tubeclose upclose-upcolor kinescopedeuce shot

Etymology

From kine- + -scope.

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