wireless

1. not comparableNot having any wires.
2. not comparableFunctioning without an external wired connection.

   wireless charging

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   wireless headphones

   Ozma, observing this action in her Magic Picture, at once caught up a similar instrument from a table beside her and held it to her own ear. The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard. Those separated by any distance were thus enabled to converse together with perfect ease.

   1914, L. Frank Baum, Tik-Tok of Oz

dated plural wirelesses

1. uncountableusuallyThe medium of radio communication.

   Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.

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   It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”

   1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court

2. uncountableusuallycomputingA wireless connectivity to a computer network.

   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

3. UKdateduncountableusuallyA radio set.

   Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.

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   I heard you on my wireless back in '52

   1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”

   In the corner of that dark back room stood a black and white television—their one nod to modernity—and beside it, two old wirelesses and a headset that had not seen action since the TV arrived.

   2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 2

present singular third person wirelesses · participle present wirelessing · participle past wirelessed · past wirelessed

1. datedobsoletetransitiveTo send (a message) by wireless or radio.

   At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.

   1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet

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   Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland.

   1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1