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- noun science fiction A
screen for broadcastingtelevision or similar media.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Orwell's machine, which he calls the telescreen, is a two-way television.
Bye-Bye, Big Brother 1994
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These public cameras - the embodiment of the Orwellian "telescreen" - have ushered in a new cinematography.
Yoani Sanchez: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us; Here Is the Video to Prove It 2010
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These public cameras - the embodiment of the Orwellian "telescreen" - have ushered in a new cinematography.
Yoani Sanchez: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us; Here Is the Video to Prove It 2010
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SCTV once did a brilliant episode set on New Year's Eve 1983 in which, as soon as the countdown hit zero, all programming became Orwellian, straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with abundant newspeak and a still photo of Orson Welles as the face of Big Brother, glaring sternly from your "telescreen".
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Once again, I'm in full agreement with Talkleft's comparison to the "telescreen" used by Big Brother in Orwell's 1984.
Civil Rights 2006
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Instead it was some kind of telescreen that passed that laser pointer back through time.
Deja Vu patternjuggler 2007
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Instead it was some kind of telescreen that passed that laser pointer back through time.
Archive 2007-04-27 patternjuggler 2007
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In his famous novel 1984, Orwell imagined a world where the "telescreen," controlled by the "Ministry of Love," fed people propaganda and spied on them.
Answering Orwell 2003
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them.
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