radio

plural radios

1. uncountableThe technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.

   send a message by radio

2. countableA device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.

   We heard the news over the radio.

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   (of a song, person, etc.) to be on the radio

   (of a song, etc.) to play on/be played on/get played on/come on the radio

   We heard a lovely song on the radio.

   She was listening to the radio when he knocked on the door.

   David Bowie's classic hit Space Oddity will be looping on the radio as the car is hurled into an elliptical orbit that stretches out to Mars' orbit around the Sun.

   2018 February 6, Jonathan Amos, “Elon Musk's huge Falcon Heavy rocket set for launch”, in BBC News, London, United Kingdom: BBC, retrieved 07 Feb 2018

   1. broadlycountableAny 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.
3. countableA device that can transmit radio signals.

   Synonyms: tuner, wireless, receiver

4. InternetuncountableThe continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.

present singular third person radios · present singular third person radioes · participle present radioing · participle past radioed · past radioed

1. ambitransitiveTo use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).

   I think the boat is sinking; we'd better radio for help. / I radioed him already. / Radio the coordinates this time. / OK. I radioed them the coordinates.

2. transitiveTo order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.

   “Could you call them here? I'd like to talk to them. Or if they're out in the field, radio them in.”

   2002, Jack Dave, Death Bridge, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40

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   When I told him that they weren't back yet, he asked if we could radio them back early […] Radioing them in was fine with me.

   2006, Angie Morgan with Courtney Lynch, Leading from the front: no excuse leadership tactics for women, page 111

   When she arrived, she was told that Tad wasn't there and to have a seat and wait while they radioed him in.

   2006, Kimberly Johnson, Amy's Secret, page 14

1. A surname.