tele
Far, in compounds
Tele is a combining form meaning at a distance, from Greek.
It appears in words like telephone (sound at a distance), television (seeing at a distance), telegram, and telepathy.
In casual speech, tele is British shorthand for television: What's on the tele tonight?
Among musicians, Tele refers to the Fender Telecaster guitar.
One who accepts transmission
- dialGraduated circular indicator
- ringtonePhone's incoming call sound
- handsetHeld telephone component
- landlineStationary wired telephone
voicemail · call · caller · cordless · operator · directory · payphone · extension
At great distance
- long-rangeAcross great distances
- remoteDistant or controller
- scopeExtent or range
- lensLight-focusing curved glass
photo · zoom · vision · kinesis · metric · presence · conferencing · commute
Transmitted media signal
- screenDisplay or barrier
- channelPassage for transmission
- remoteDistant or controller
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
satellite · streaming · series · episode · HDTV · plasma · LCD · LED
receiver
One who accepts transmission
landline · voicemail · call · caller · cordless · operator · directory · payphone · extension · long-distance
faraway
At great distance
- long-rangeAcross great distances
- remoteDistant or controller
- scopeExtent or range
lens · photo · zoom · vision · kinesis · metric · presence · conferencing · commute · medicine
broadcast
Transmitted media signal
cable · satellite · streaming · series · episode · HDTV · plasma · LCD · LED · viewer
broadcast
Transmitted media signal
signal · wireless · fiber-optic · cellular · mobile · 5G · LTE · broadband · transmission · bandwidth
Morse
Telegraph code originator
- codeSymbolic communication system
- transmissionSending of information
- wiresMetallic electrical conductors
operator · station · Victorian · cable · dispatch · encode · decode · key · sounder · ticker
- Greek rootsbio, geo, graph, hydro, hyper
- drama therapypsychodrama, sociodrama, drama therapy, role play, role-playing
- sociometrysocial distance, dyad, triad, isolate, centrality
- Latin Rootsact, cede, cent, cred, duct
- television showBroadcast entertainment series
- telephone numberCode to connect calls
- telephone poleTall post carrying wires
- telephone callSpoken exchange via handset
- reality televisionProgramming featuring non-actors
- television channelBroadcast frequency for programming
television, telephone, telescope, telegram, telegraph, telepathy, telecast, teleport, telemarketing