Radio
['reɪdɪəʊ] or ['redɪo]
Definition
(noun.) a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves.
(noun.) medium for communication.
(verb.) transmit messages via radio waves; 'he radioed for help'.
(adj.) indicating radiation or radioactivity; 'radiochemistry' .
Edited by ELLA--From WordNet
Examples
- There is (according to Soddy) about on e part of radium in five million parts of the best pitchblende, but the new element is about one million times more radio active than uranium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Helium had been notified by radio-aerogram of our approach. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Neither can he hear the radio. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When they had come close enough to make us out at all, Kantos Kan's operator received a radio-aerogram, which he immediately handed to my companion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was a radio-aerial message to the commander of the submarine: The slaves have risen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- On September 29th speech was successfully transmitted by wire from the headquarters of the company at 15 Dey Street, New York, to the radio station at Arlington, Va. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ah much, much, many days harvesting for her large, yet perfectly subtle and intelligent hands upon the field of his living, radio-active body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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