Used in a Sentence

tele

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tele.

Editorial note

It's possible that video or tele conferencing could be just as effective, but apparently they prefer to do business in person.

Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tele gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

(informal) A Fender Telecaster electric guitar.

noun

(rare) Alternative spelling of telly (“television, telegraph, telephone, teleport, telecommunication”). [Television.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tele.

noun

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

noun

(informal) A Fender Telecaster electric guitar.

noun

(rare) Alternative spelling of telly (“television, telegraph, telephone, teleport, telecommunication”). [Television.]

Example sentences

1

It's possible that video or tele conferencing could be just as effective, but apparently they prefer to do business in person.

2

Are you wor­ried about Google (or Face­book or Twit­ter or your tele­phone com­pa­ny or Mi­crosoft or Ama­zon) mis­us­ing the da­ta they col­lec­t?

3

Robotic surgery, tele-presence surgery - not sure if this is a thing yet.

4

Top-down approaches like Tele Atlas and Navteq can miss these subtleties.

5

Of course, I tele-conferenced with Lars before Chrome was released, but SpiderMonkey was still the indexing system's JavaScript interpreter on Chrome's go-live date.

6

I agree - the FTC has effecticley banned this 'data pass' practice for tele-marketers since 2003, they should extend it to websites too.

7

As a founder of a tele-health technology company, and I can say from my vantage point that this type of service is the future.

8

In my experience, Housing has: a) The best UI and UX b) The best customer service in terms of tele-service, the agent coming over and taking photos, etc.

9

- We made tele-visits completely free and very easy to use.

10

Last I checked, Brazil is a quite a bit more than a stone's throw away from Poland, and I would imagine even the tele-commute must be hell much less the physical commute.

11

I prefer working in the office - normal commute is 20 minutes by train - the only problem at least in my office is no doors and i sit close to people who are in tele-sales, constant noise.

12

This is nothing new of course, movies and TV were closing distant gaps long before it: ignoring the valid criticisms of Live Aid for a second, people got motivated to do something because they empathised with distant people thanks to this tele -vision.

Quote examples

1

'tele' is Greek (telos is 'extremity' roughly, from which the adverbial sense "far off" for 'tele-').

2

+1 for telecaster "shape" -- I grew up on Strats, but play a thin line Tele most of the time now.

3

Yeah, sort of like those "32 in 1" and "112 tele-games" Atari cartridges, where each "game" was a permutation on the number of players, how the players were organized into "teams" combined with difficulty levels, or some such modifier.

Proper noun examples

1

Television is latin (tele=far, videre/visus=to see), microscope is Greek (micro=small, skopein=to see).

2

I hadn't heard about Tele-Atlas, but this weekend I got wrong directions for the first time.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tele in a sentence?

It's possible that video or tele conferencing could be just as effective, but apparently they prefer to do business in person.

What does tele mean?

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

What part of speech is tele?

tele is commonly used as noun.