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cathode-ray tube
noun as in picture tube
Strongest match
Weak match
Example Sentences
The series’ American and local Thai crew worked together to go through “Alien” frame by frame to recreate that specific retro-futuristic look for the Maginot, complete with tactile hulls and cathode-ray tube screens.
It wasn’t until 1895 that a physicist named Wilhelm Röntgen tried something new: He put the hand of his wife, Anna, between a cathode-ray tube and a photographic plate.
Certainly, television — in the ad-supported, cathode-ray tube age — was an imperfect medium for watching theatrical features.
A huge great buzzing cathode-ray tube that takes five minutes to warm up and generates enough static to hoover all the dead skin cells out of a surrounding arc of carpet.
Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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