Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A message transmitted by wireless telegraphy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A picture taken by means of the action of Röntgen rays, or of similar obscure rays such as those emitted by radium, upon a sensitized plate; a print from a radiographic negative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A message, like a
telegram , transmitted byradio rather thanwires . - noun An
entertainment device that combined a radio and arecord player orgramophone . - noun A
radiograph .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
- noun a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy
Etymologies
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Examples
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The formal definition of a radiogram is a plain text message sent in a recognizable format over amateur radio, but in this case it describes a coded message transmitted over shortwave radio directly to operatives in Moscow.
Fast Company 2010
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The formal definition of a radiogram is a plain text message sent in a recognizable format over amateur radio, but in this case it describes a coded message transmitted over shortwave radio directly to operatives in Moscow.
Fast Company 2010
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That message was to be sent by "radiogram," a wireless communication method similar to Morse code, the document said.
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It went straight on to the radiogram, and I played it over and over again.
Family life 2011
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The 50s – growing up with the family radiogram in the living room.
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The nice thing about a vinyl record played through a radiogram with a tube (valve) amplifier is that it sounded warm as opposed to bright.
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The 50s – growing up with the family radiogram in the living room.
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There is even a radiogram, one of the pieces which the Dowager Duchess herself is selling: it is of course a rather grand walnut veneered model by the royal jewellers Garrard and Co.
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Lesser mortals turn out their attics and find a dead radiogram, a broken Teasmade and two perished hot water bottles.
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He takes them out of the shelf of the old radiogram, stacks them up on the ling spindle, settles back into his chair with the Bush and the comic.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
fbharjo commented on the word radiogram
another x-ed x-ray term
March 2, 2012
MaryW commented on the word radiogram
A radio and record-player.
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (New York: Grove Press, 2011), p. 92.Id. at 43.
<blockquote>On occasions we have known demons inhabit pieces of furniture. There was a radiogram that had a demon in it—every time the poor woman tuned in to <I>Songs of Praise</I>, all she could hear were manic cackles. The valves were sent away to be blessed and when they were refitted the demon had gone. It might have been something to do with the soldering but nobody mentioned that.</blockquote><I>Id.</I> at 80.January 12, 2016