radar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor.
Latin -graphuslbor.
French -graphe
French télégraphebor.
English telegraph
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ieder.
Middle English -ie
Middle English -y
English -y
English telegraphy
English radiotelegraphyclip.
English radio
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der.
Proto-Italic *tegō
Latin tegō
Latin dētegō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tio
Latin dētēctiōder.
Latin dētēctiōnembor.
English detection
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Germanic *andi
Old English and
Middle English and
English and
Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der.
Proto-Celtic *reketi
Gaulish *rekosbor.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-der.
Proto-Germanic *rinkanąder.
Proto-Germanic *rankaz
Frankish *rankbor.?
Vulgar Latin *rencus
Old French reng
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Old French rengierbor.
Middle English rengen
English range
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English ranging
English RADAR
English radar
The noun is derived from RADAR by anacronymic evolution. RADAR is an acronym of ra(dio) d(etection) a(nd) r(anging) which was coined by Lieutenant-Commander Samuel M. Tucker and Lieutenant-Commander F. R. Furth of the United States Navy in November 1940.
The verb is probably derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: radars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: radaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: radared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: radared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They were able to find the enemy fleet using radar.
Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.
gloss: In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Ministry of Defence funded the development of an entirely new radar and improved avionics.
Evidence as to the audio monitor's reading is required to prove the [police] officer used the radar unit properly, and must be shown in order to secure a conviction for speeding when using radar.
gloss: In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Each of these aircraft has been upgraded with a new radar and a more powerful engine.
[T]he [depth] bombs must be tied to a grid of listening devices, radars and plotting instruments.
gloss: Often preceded by a descriptive word: a natural (for example, in an animal such as a bat) or human-made detection method based on the analysis of reflected signals other than radio waves, as light waves or sound waves; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: A superior ability to detect something; an awareness, an intuition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: His sensitive radar for hidden alliances keeps him out of trouble.
Stanley: Geez, how'd ya know? / Happy: I got radar or something.
It [a goal] came inside 50 minutes and moments later [Edinson] Cavani should have had a 12th. [Paul] Pogba and [Luke] Shaw combined before the left-back's cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.
gloss: To use a radar apparatus (noun senses 1, 1.1, or 2) on (someone or something); to scan (someone or something) with, or as if with, radar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This was no ordinary signal for help that Baby-John was radaring to outer space, but a call that had to be heeded, for he had just seen two hard guys go down for the final count— […]
I don't think men are born on this planet. I think men are born on the planet Pluto and they have them molecularly disassembled and radar-ed to the earth.
You want to cross-examine an officer about his competence with regards to radar and the radar he used to ticket you with. He radars you while he's sitting in his patrol vehicle under a bridge.
[I]n Humans Need Not to Count the artists Varvara & Mar presented a robot clicker counting the number of visitors to the gallery […] The piece also evoked the mythification of artificial intelligence, attributing wisdom and consciousness to what is, in the case of the installation, instrumental intelligence (the robotic hand merely does two moves: radaring and clicking).
Derived words: active radar
antiradar
below the radar
bistatic radar
-dar
Doppler radar
drop off the radar
fall off the radar
fly under the radar
gaydar
georadar
hetdar
LIDAR
multifunction array radar
nonradar
off the radar
on someone's radar
on someone's radar screen
on the radar
photoradar
precision approach radar
primary radar
primary surveillance radar
PSR
racon
radar altimeter
radar astronomy
radar chart
radar cross section
radar detector
radar dome
radargram
radar gun
radar horizon
radar image
radarkymogram
radarless
radarlike
radarman
radarmeteorological
radar meteorology
radarmeteorology
radar picket
radar reflector
radarscope
radar telescope
radar trap
radome
secondary radar
secondary surveillance radar
SSR
slip under the radar
subradar
under the radar
weather radar
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: radar
lang: Albanian
word: radar
lang: Arabic
word: رَادَار
roman: rādār
lang: Arabic
word: رادار
roman: rādār
lang: Aragonese
word: radar
lang: Armenian
word: ռադար
roman: ṙadar
lang: Armenian
word: ռադիոլոկատոր
roman: ṙadiolokator
lang: Assamese
word: ৰাডাৰ
roman: radar
lang: Asturian
word: radar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: radar
lang: Basque
word: radar
lang: Belarusian
word: рада́р
roman: radár
lang: Belarusian
word: радыёлака́тар
roman: radyjolakátar
lang: Belarusian
word: РЛС
roman: RLS
lang: Bengali
word: রাডার
roman: raḍar
lang: Bihari
word: राडार
lang: Breton
word: radar
lang: Bulgarian
word: ра́дар
roman: rádar
lang: Bulgarian
word: радиолока́тор
roman: radiolokátor
lang: Burmese
word: ရေဒါ
roman: reda
lang: Catalan
word: radar
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 雷達 /雷达
roman: leoi⁴ daat⁶
lang: Chinese
word: 雷達 /雷达
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 雷達 /雷达
roman: léidá
lang: Czech
word: radar
lang: Danish
word: radar
lang: Dutch
word: radar
lang: Estonian
word: radar
lang: Finnish
word: tutka
lang: French
word: radar
lang: North Frisian
word: radar
lang: West-Frisian
word: radar
lang: Galician
word: radar
lang: Georgian
word: რადარი
roman: radari
lang: German
word: Radar
lang: German
word: Funkmessgerät
lang: Greek
word: ραντάρ
roman: rantár
lang: Greek
word: ραδιοεντοπιστής
roman: radioentopistís
lang: Gujarati
word: સર્વદર્ચિત્ર
roman: sarvadarcitra
lang: Hausa
word: radar
lang: Hebrew
word: רָדָאר
roman: radár
lang: Hebrew
word: מַכָּ״ם
lang: Hindi
word: रडार
roman: raḍār
lang: Hungarian
word: radar
lang: Hungarian
word: rádiólokátor
lang: Icelandic
word: ratsjá
lang: Ido
word: radaro
lang: Indonesian
word: radar
lang: Irish
word: radar
lang: Italian
word: radar
lang: Italian
word: radiotelemetro
lang: Japanese
word: レーダー
roman: rēdā
lang: Japanese
word: 電波探知機
roman: denpa tanchiki
lang: Kannada
word: ರೇಡಾರ್
roman: rēḍār
lang: Kashmiri
word: راڈار
roman: rāḍār
lang: Karakalpak
word: radar
lang: Kazakh
word: радиолокатор
roman: radiolokator
lang: Kazakh
word: радар
roman: radar
lang: Khmer
word: រ៉ាដា
roman: raadaa
lang: Korean
word: 레이다
roman: reida
lang: Korean
word: 탐지기
roman: tamjigi
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ڕادار
roman: radar
lang: Kyrgyz
word: радар
roman: radar
lang: Lao
word: ລາດາ
roman: lā dā
lang: Latvian
word: radars
lang: Lithuanian
word: radaras
lang: Luxembourgish
word: radar
lang: Macedonian
word: радар
roman: radar
lang: Malay
word: radar
lang: Malayalam
word: റഡാർ
roman: ṟaḍāṟ
lang: Māori
word: hihiani
lang: Marathi
word: रडार यंत्रणा
roman: raḍār yantraṇā
lang: Mongolian
word: радар
roman: radar
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: radar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: radar
lang: Occitan
word: radar
lang: Oromo
word: raadaarii
lang: Pashto
word: رادار
roman: rādār
lang: Iranian Persian
word: رادار
roman: râdâr
lang: Polish
word: radar
lang: Polish
word: radiolokator
lang: Portuguese
word: radar
lang: Punjabi
word: ਰਡਾਰ
roman: raḍār
lang: Punjabi
word: ریڈار
roman: reḍār
lang: Romanian
word: radar
lang: Russian
word: рада́р
roman: radár
lang: Russian
word: радиолока́тор
roman: radiolokátor
lang: Russian
word: РЛС
roman: RLS
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ра̏да̄р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȁdār
lang: Sicilian
word: radar
lang: Sinhalese
word: රේඩාර් උපාංග
roman: rēḍār upāṁga
lang: Slovak
word: radar
lang: Slovene
word: radar
lang: Spanish
word: radar
lang: Swahili
word: rada
lang: Swedish
word: radar
lang: Tagalog
word: radar
lang: Tagalog
word: siglap
lang: Tajik
word: радар
roman: radar
lang: Tamil
word: கதிரலைக் கும்பா
roman: katiralaik kumpā
lang: Telugu
word: రాడార్
roman: rāḍār
lang: Thai
word: เรดาร์
roman: ree-dâa
lang: Turkish
word: radar
lang: Turkmen
word: radar
lang: Ukrainian
word: рада́р
roman: radár
lang: Ukrainian
word: радіолока́тор
roman: radiolokátor
lang: Ukrainian
word: РЛС
roman: RLS
lang: Urdu
word: ریڈار
roman: reḍār
lang: Uzbek
word: radar
lang: Uzbek
word: radiolokator
lang: Vietnamese
word: ra đa
lang: Walloon
word: radår
lang: Waray-Waray
word: radar
lang: Welsh
word: radar
lang: Yiddish
word: ראַדאַר
roman: radar