wireless
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwaɪə.ləs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: wire‧less
Adjective edit
wireless (not comparable)
- Not having any wires.
- Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.
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Translations edit
not having any wires
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of or relating to wireless telegraphy
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Noun edit
wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)
- (uncountable) The medium of radio communication.
- Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
- 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. […]”
- (uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.
- If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
- (dated, chiefly British) A radio set.
- Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
- 1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”:
- I heard you on my wireless back in '52
- 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 2:
- 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.
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Translations edit
radio
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wireless connectivity to a computer network
Verb edit
wireless (third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed)
- To send a message by wireless (by radio)
- 1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet:
- 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.
- 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet[1], Part II, Chapter 1:
- 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.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.
Noun edit
wireless m (invariable)
- wireless (transmission without wires)
Adjective edit
wireless (invariable)
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English wireless.
Noun edit
wireless m (uncountable)
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.
Noun edit
wireless f (invariable)
- (networking) wireless (wireless connectivity to a computer network)
Adjective edit
wireless (invariable)
- (of hardware) wireless (communicating without wired connections)