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Examples of picture tube in a Sentence
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One of the bright new features of Snapdragon Stadium will be state-of-the-art video boards — a pair of them — which for fans will be like going from a TV with a picture tube to a flat screen with HD.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
The secret of this miniature affair is a new-type picture tube, only one inch in diameter and six inches long.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
Factory workers here made typewriters for Remington Rand, television picture tubes for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Sikorsky helicopters for the U.S. military.
—Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
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Word History
First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined above
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“Picture tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picture%20tube. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
picture tube
noun
: a cathode-ray tube on which the picture in a television set appears
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