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slivercast

slivercast noun: a video program targetted at a niche market.

Noun

slivercast (plural slivercasts)

  1. A video program targetted at a niche market.
    • Yet slivercast services can be a valuable part of the basic cable package.1989, Rajeev Batra, Rashi Glazer, Cable TV Advertising: In Search of the Right Formula, →ISBN, page 20
    • The promises of interactive WebTV or downloadable “slivercasts” raise the possibility of dramatically altering how we watch and even use the television.2006, Bart Beaty, Rebecca Sullivan, Canadian Television Today, →ISBN, page 21

Verb

slivercast (third-person singular simple present slivercasts, present participle slivercasting, simple past and past participle slivercast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) slivercasted)

  1. To deliver a slivercast on TV or the internet.
    • Also symptomatic of the new order of things has been the slivercasting of radio, television, and cyberspace audiences, as we have also noted above.2011, Wilbur Zelinsky, Not Yet a Placeless Land: Tracking an Evolving American Geography, →ISBN

Forms of slivercast

Noun
pluralslivercasts
Verb
third-person singular presentslivercasts
present participleslivercasting
past participleslivercast
pastslivercast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesslivercasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesslivercasted

Origin of slivercast

Back-formation from slivercasting.

Questions about slivercast

What does slivercast mean?
Slivercast means a video program targetted at a niche market.
What part of speech is slivercast?
Slivercast can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of slivercast?
The plural of slivercast is slivercasts.

Words near slivercast in the dictionary

  1. slive
  2. slived
  3. sliven
  4. sliver
  5. sliver moon
  6. slivercast
  7. slivercasted
  8. slivercaster
  9. slivercasters
  10. slivercasting
  11. slivercasts

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