tele

Clipping of television.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛli/
• Rhymes: -ɛli

tele (countable and uncountable, plural teles)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of telly (“television, telegraph, telephone, teleport, telecommunication”)
   • 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 9:

     All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]

   • 2019, Helen Thomas, Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case:

     They were up late, talking and watching television. Peter will never forget what happened just after they had gone to bed. 'It's like it was yesterday. We'd just been watching tele and went to bed at about 2.30 am. […]

tele (uncountable)

1. According to Jacob L. Moreno, a mutual connection or rapport between people that is not a mere one-way process like empathy or transference.

• Leet, Teel, leet, teel

 

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From tele- +‎ visión.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtele/
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: te‧le

tele f

1. television

   Ixo ye la tele.

   That's the tele.

• (collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television): televisión
• (device for receiving television signals): televisor, televisión

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Inherited from Old Czech tele, from Proto-Slavic *telę.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛlɛ]

tele n (related adjective telecí)

1. calf (young cow or bull)

• kráva
• býk
• vůl
• semetrika

• “tele”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tele”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tele”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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• Rhymes: -eːlə

tele

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of telen

• eelt, teel

Short for teleobjektiivi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtele/, [ˈt̪e̞le̞]
• Rhymes: -ele
• Hyphenation^(key): te‧le

tele (colloquial)

1. (photographing) telephoto lens

• “tele”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• leet

From Latin tēla.

tele f (plural telis)

1. cloth
2. canvas

• tele di ragn

• tiessi

 

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Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia ^gl

Clipping of televisión.

tele f (plural teles)

1. (colloquial) TV, telly

• (collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television): televisión
• (device for receiving television signals): televisor, televisión

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛlɛ]

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• Hyphenation: te‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

From Proto-Uralic *täwde. Cognates include Finnish täysi, Estonian täis.

tele (not comparable)

1. full (of something -val/-vel), normally with explicit or implied van

   Synonym: (comparable) teli

   Antonyms: üresen, híján

   Tele van a ház pókokkal. ― The house is full of spiders.

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with tele-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see tele-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

tele (not comparable)

1. full (of something -val/-vel)

   Synonym: (comparable) teli

   Antonym: üres

   Egy tele pohár vizet kaptak. ― They got a full glass of water.

   vízzel tele pohár ― a glass full of water

Ellipsis of teleobjektív.

tele (plural telék)

2. (photography, slang) telephoto lens (lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects)

   Synonym: teleobjektív

tél (“winter”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

tele

2. third-person singular single-possession possessive of tél

• tele- (prefix)

• (full): tele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛle
• Hyphenation: tè‧le

tele f

1. (informal) telly (UK), TV

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.le/
• Rhymes: -ele
• Hyphenation: té‧le

tele f pl

1. plural of tela

• Lete, Letè

 

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tele f (5th declension)

1. female calf, immature cow, heifer

   pērnā tele ― the heifer from last year

   šķirnes tele ― a heifer of good breed

   grūsna tele ― pregnant heifer

   te Tibils visu vasaru turēja savus lopus: divas teles, abas slaucamās govis, aitas un zirgus ― here Tibils kept his animals all summer: the two heifers, both dairy cows, the sheep and the horses

   nopētīju savu ganāmpulki, vai kāda no govīm, īpaši telēm, netaisās laisties blēņās uz zirņu lauku ― he kept an eye on his herd, in case one of the cows, especially the heifers, wanted to play any tricks on the pea fields

• liellops
• govs
• bullis
• teļš, telēns
• vērsis

From Old Norse þeli, þili.

tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural teler, definite plural telene)

1. a frozen layer of soil

   Synonym: klake

tele (present tense teler, past tense tela or telet, past participle tela or telet)

1. (intransitive, about the ground) to freeze

From Old Norse þilir m pl.

tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural teler, definite plural telene)

1. a person from Telemark

   Synonyms: telemarking, teledøl

• “tele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tele” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• elet, elte, etle, leet, lete, tele-

From Old Norse þeli, þili. The verb is derived from the noun. Probably related to Swedish tjäle.

• IPA^(key): /tæle/

tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural telar, definite plural telane)

1. a frozen layer of soil

   Synonym: klake

tele (present tense telar, past tense tela, past participle tela, passive infinitive telast, present participle telande, imperative tele/tel)

1. (intransitive, about the ground or fingers) to freeze

• tela (a- and split infinitives)

From Old Norse þilir m pl.

tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural teler or telar, definite plural telene or telane)

1. a person from Telemark

   Synonym: telemarking

• “tele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• elet, elte, etle, leet, lete, léte, tele-

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *telę.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtɛlɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈtɛlɛ/

tele n

1. calf (young cow or bull)

• Czech: tele

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “tele”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

tele

1. locative singular of tela (“oil”)

tele

1. inflection of telar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

tele

1. big

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *telę.

• IPA^(key): /těle/
• Hyphenation: te‧le

tèle n (Cyrillic spelling тѐле)

1. calf

This word has no plural, but the collective noun tȅlād is used instead.

• tèletina

• gleda kao tele u šarena vrata

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛlɛ/

tele

1. locative singular of telo

From Proto-Slavic *telę.

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̀ːlɛ/

téle n

1. calf

• “tele”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

 

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

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Clipping of televisión.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtele/ [ˈt̪e.le]
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: te‧le

tele f (plural teles)

1. television

   Synonyms: televisión, televisor

• “tele”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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tele (invariable)

1. abundant

tele

1. sun

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tele

1. puppy

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[2] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 78