radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪdiˌoʊ/
Forms: form: radios
Etymology: Short for radiotelegraphy.
Senses: examples: text: send a message by radio
glosses: The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
examples: text: We heard a lovely song on the radio.
text: She was listening to the radio when he knocked on the door.
glosses: A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
examples: text: David Bowie's classic hit Space Oddity will be looping on the radio as the car is hurled into an elliptical orbit that stretches out to Mars' orbit around the Sun.
ref: 2018 February 6, Jonathan Amos, “Elon Musk's huge Falcon Heavy rocket set for launch”, in BBC News, London, United Kingdom: BBC, retrieved 07 Feb 2018:
glosses: Any audio playing device, such as the on-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media; see also car radio.
glosses: A device that can transmit radio signals.
glosses: The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
Synonyms: sense: device to capture radio signal
word: tuner
sense: device to capture radio signal
word: wireless
sense: device to capture radio signal
word: receiver
Derived terms: aeradio
album-oriented radio
amateur radio
antiradio
base radio
black radio
cable radio
car radio
CB radio
citizens' band radio
clock radio
clockwork radio
console radio
crystal radio
crystal radio receiver
emergency position indicating radio beacon
face for radio
fast radio burst
foxhole radio
giant radio galaxy
ham radio
Internet radio
like a plasterer's radio
microradio
nonradio
packet radio
pirate radio
preradio
quasi-stellar radio-source
quasi-stellar radio source
radio-active
radio alarm
radio alarm clock
radio alphabet
radio altimeter
radio amateur
radio amplifier
radio astronomer
radio astronomical
radio astronomy
radio-based
radio beacon
radio-bright
radio broadcast
radio burst
radio button
radio car
radio cassette
radio cassette player
radio cassette recorder
radio clock
radio collar
radio-collared
radio compass
radio control
radio-controlled
radio-controlled car
radio direction finder
radio documentary
radio drama
radio edit
radio energy
radio fix
radio format
radio frequency
radio-frequency
radio-frequency identification
radio frequency integrated circuit
radio-friendly
radio galaxy
radiogenic
radiogram
radiogramophone
radio halo
radio interferometer
radio interferometry
radio jet
radio jock
radio jockey
radio knife
radioland
radioless
radiolike
radio-luminous
radio mix
radio modem
radio monitoring
radio navigation
radio nebula
radio officer
radio operator
radiopager
radio pill
radio play
radio reception
radio relay
radio rental
radio shack
radio signal
radio silence
radio silent
radiosonde
radio song
radio sounding
radio source
radiospectrograph
radio star
radio station
radio-tag
radio tag
radio-tagged
radio tagging
radiotelecommunication
radio telegraphy
radio telemetry
radio-telephone
radiotelephone
radio telephony
radio telescope
radiothon
radio tower
radio tracking
radiotracking
radio transmitter
radiotransmitter
radio wave
rotating radio transient
software defined radio
steam radio
streaming radio
talk radio
talk-radio
teleradio
topless radio
transistor radio
white radio
wind-up radio
Related terms: radiate
radiation
radiator
radius
ray
transceiver