Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Electromagnetic radiation with lower frequencies and longer wavelengths than those of microwaves, having frequencies lower than 300 megahertz and wavelengths longer than 1 meter.
- noun The transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves within this range, especially when convertible to audible sounds.
- noun A device, such as a walkie-talkie, that transmits or receives such signals.
- noun The system or industry that broadcasts programs of audio content to the public or subscribers by means of radio waves.
- noun Audio content, especially short programs or sets of songs, created for or distributed through such a system.
- noun An electronic device for listening to radio programming, consisting of a tuner and speakers.
- intransitive verb To transmit by radio.
- intransitive verb To transmit a message to by radio.
- intransitive verb To transmit messages or a message by radio.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
technology that allows for thetransmission of sound or other signals bymodulation ofelectromagnetic waves . - noun countable A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as
sound . - noun countable A device that can transmit radio signals.
- noun Internet, uncountable The continuous
broadcasting ofsound recordings via theInternet in the style of traditional radio. - verb intransitive, transitive, transitive, intransitive To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
- verb transitive To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While the White House can count on the Rights vertically integrated media machine from cable TV to talk radio, from newspapers and magazines to book publishing and the Internet the opposition has mostly scattered voices on the Internet and in fledgling progressive talk radio to make its case.
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Why lah they must use the radio channel to boast which club they went to last night, how they dance lah, yadda yadda yadda bla bla bla. * turn off radio*
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A: The only thing a contract's worth in radio is how much they're going to pay you when they fire you.
Host 2005
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Payola in radio is illegal when a song is played due to a payment but that fact is not disclosed.
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A: The only thing a contract's worth in radio is how much they're going to pay you when they fire you.
Host 2005
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I love the internet, but it's no more a book than a TV or the radio is a book (and weren't those supposed to replace books, too?).
Would you trust these people with your kid? Roger Sutton 2009
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Plus, the radio is another pound in the pack and, along with GPS and the locator beacon, one more electronic crutch that hunters can lean on to substitute for the sound legs of basic survival and navigational skills.
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And there's no way that listening to a radio is as distracting as talking on a handheld cellphone.
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Writing about these stations makes me think about how much more passive the act of listening to the radio is these days.
To All the Call Letters I’ve Loved Before : Scrubbles.net 2008
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Writing about these stations makes me think about how much more passive the act of listening to the radio is these days.
alexz commented on the word radio
Science Friday had a 'Science Diction' segment on the origin of the word radio.
http://sciencefriday.com/playlist/#play/segment/8540
http://sciencefriday.com/segment/06/24/2011/science-diction-the-origin-of-the-word-radio.html
At the time, radioactivity was a term which referred to a radiating energy. broadcast was an agricultural term referring to spreading seeds widely.
June 13, 2015