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slivercast en · NOUN

Back-formation from slivercasting.

A video program targetted at a niche market.
- 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:
- Because most viewers are accustomed to the way television delivers information, slivercasts are a logical extension of this format. 2007 June, Marcus Field, Vanessa Stoykov, “Online branding: the new frontier”, in InFinance: The Magazine for Finsia Members, volume 121, number 2:
- 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:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
slivercasts	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Back-formation from slivercasting.

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:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
slivercasts	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
slivercasted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	common, error-unknown-tag, proscribed, sometimes	lexicographic
slivercasted	Tense=Past	common, error-unknown-tag, proscribed, sometimes	lexicographic
slivercasting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
slivercast	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
slivercast	Tense=Past		lexicographic