name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A surname.
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noun
The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
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.
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Usage: broadly, countable
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noun
A device that can transmit radio signals.
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Usage: countable
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noun
The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
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Usage: Internet, uncountable
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verb
To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
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Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
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Usage: transitive
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adjective
indicating radiation or radioactivity
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noun
a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wireless
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Broader terms: communication system
Narrower terms: radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy
noun
an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, tuner, wireless
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Broader terms: receiver, receiving system
Narrower terms: clock radio, crystal set, heterodyne receiver, superheterodyne receiver, superhet, push-button radio
noun
medium for communication
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: radiocommunication, wireless
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Broader terms: broadcasting
verb
transmit messages via radio waves
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Broader terms: communicate, intercommunicate
History
Short for radiotelegraphy.
Across languages
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