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te|lepho|ny /t I le fəni/ N‑UNCOUNT Telephony is a system of sending voice signals using electronic equipment. □  These optical fibres may be used for new sorts of telephony.

tele|photo lens /te l I foʊtoʊ le nz/ (telephoto lenses ) N‑COUNT A telephoto lens is a powerful camera lens which allows you to take close-up pictures of something that is far away.

Tele|prompt|er /te l I prɒ mptə ^r / (Teleprompters ) N‑COUNT A Teleprompter is a device used by people speaking on television or at a public event, which displays words for them to read. [mainly AM , TRADEMARK ] in BRIT, usually use Autocue

tele|sales /te l I se I lz/ N‑UNCOUNT [oft N n] Telesales is the selling of a company's products or services by telephone, either by phoning possible customers or by answering calls from customers. [BUSINESS ]

tele|scope /te l I skoʊp/ (telescopes ) N‑COUNT A telescope is a long instrument shaped like a tube. It has lenses inside it that make distant things seem larger and nearer when you look through it.

tele|scop|ic /te l I skɒ p I k/

1 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Telescopic lenses and instruments are used to make things seem larger and nearer, and are usually longer than others of the same type. □  …a sporting rifle fitted with a telescopic sight.

2 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A telescopic object is made of cylindrical sections that fit or slide into each other, so that it can be made longer or shorter, for example to save space when it is not being used. □  …this new lightweight telescopic ladder.

tele|van|gelist /tel I væ ndʒəl I st/ (televangelists ) N‑COUNT A televangelist is someone who makes regular television broadcasts to promote a particular form of Christianity and raise money for particular Christian groups or projects.

tele|vise /te l I va I z/ (televises , televising , televised ) VERB [usu passive] If an event or programme is televised , it is broadcast so that it can be seen on television. □ [be V -ed] The race will be televised by the BBC.

tele|vi|sion ◆◆◇ /te l I v I ʒ ^ə n, -v I ʒ-/ (televisions )

1 N‑COUNT A television or television set is a piece of electrical equipment consisting of a box with a glass screen on it on which you can watch programmes with pictures and sounds. □  She turned the television on and flicked around between news programmes.

2 N‑UNCOUNT Television is the system of sending pictures and sounds by electrical signals over a distance so that people can receive them on a television in their home. □  Toy manufacturers began promoting some of their products on television.

3 N‑UNCOUNT Television refers to all the programmes that you can watch. □  I don't have time to watch very much television.

4 N‑UNCOUNT Television is the business or industry concerned with making programmes and broadcasting them on television. □  British commercial television has been steadily losing its lead as the most advanced sector of the industry in Europe.

tele|vis|ual /te ləv I ʒuəl/ ADJ [ADJ n] Televisual means broadcast on or related to television. [mainly BRIT ] □  …a televisual masterpiece.

tele|work|er /te liwɜː ^r kə ^r / (teleworkers ) N‑COUNT Teleworkers are people who work from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact the people they work with and their customers. [BUSINESS ]

tele|work|ing /te liwɜː ^r k I ŋ/ N‑UNCOUNT Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people. [BUSINESS ]

tel|ex /te leks/ (telexes , telexing , telexed )

1 N‑UNCOUNT Telex is an international system used especially in the past for sending written messages. Messages are converted into signals which are transmitted, either by electricity or by radio signals, and then printed out by a machine in another place.

2 N‑COUNT A telex is a machine that transmits and receives telex messages.

3 N‑COUNT A telex is a message that you send or that has been received and printed by telex.