wireless

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

wire +‎ -less

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪə.ləs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: wire‧less

AdjectiveEdit

wireless (not comparable)

Not having any wires.
Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.

SynonymsEdit

cordless

AntonymsEdit

wired

TranslationsEdit

not having any wires

Arabic: لَاسِلْكِيّ‎ (lāsilkiyy)
Bulgarian: безжичен (bezžičen)
Catalan: sense fil
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無線／无线 (zh) (wǔxiàn)
Czech: bezdrátový (cs)
Danish: trådløs (da)
Dutch: draadloos (nl)
Elfdalian: tråðlos
Esperanto: sendrata
Finnish: langaton (fi)
French: sans fil (fr)
Georgian: უსადენო (usadeno), უკაბელო (uḳabelo)
German: drahtlos (de)
Greek: ασύρματος (el) m (asýrmatos)
Hebrew: אַלְחוּטִי‎ m (alẖutí)
Hindi: बेतार (hi) (betār)
Indonesian: nirkabel (id)
Japanese: 無線 (ja) (むせん, musen), ワイヤレス (waiyaresu)
Macedonian: безжичен (bezžičen)
Malay: wayarles, nirwayar
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trådlaus, trådløs (no)

Nynorsk: trådlaus
Polish: bezprzewodowy (pl), bezsznurowy (pl) (less common)
Portuguese: sem fio
Romanian: fără fir
Russian: беспро́водный (ru) (bespróvodnyj), беспроводно́й (ru) (besprovodnój), беспро́волочный (ru) (bespróvoločnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: бежично, bežično (sh)
Spanish: inalámbrico (es)
Swedish: trådlös (sv)
Tagalog: awangkawad, walang-kawad
Telugu: తీగెలేని (tīgelēni)
Thai: ไร้สาย (rái-sǎai)
Turkish: kablosuz (tr)
Vietnamese: không dây
Welsh: diwifr

of or relating to wireless telegraphy

Arabic: لَاسِلْكِيّ‎ (lāsilkiyy)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: langaton (fi)
German: drahtlos (de), Funk- (de), Radio- (de)
Greek: ασύρματος (el) m (asýrmatos)
Hebrew: אַלְחוּטִי‎ m (alẖutí)
Hindi: बेतार (hi) (betār)
Japanese: ワイヤレス (waiyaresu), 無線 (ja) (むせん, musen)
Polish: radiowy (pl)
Portuguese: sem fio
Romanian: radio- (ro)
Russian: ра́дио- (ru) (rádio-), беспроводно́й (ru) (besprovodnój)
Tagalog: awangkawad, walang-kawad
Vietnamese: không dây, vô tuyến (vi)
Welsh: diwifr

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} draadloos (nl)
French: ^{(please verify)} sans fil (fr)
German: ^{(please verify)} drahtlos (de)
Persian: ^{(please verify)} بی‌سیم‎ (fa) (bi-sim)
Sindhi: ^{(please verify)} ريتار‎ (sd)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} inalámbrico (es)

NounEdit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

wireless

Wikipedia

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 Britain) A radio set.
Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
- 1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”:
  I heard you on my wireless back in '52

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

radio

Bulgarian: радио (bg) (radio)
Catalan: ràdio (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無線電／无线电 (zh) (wúxiàndiàn)
Finnish: radio (fi), radioviestintä
French: radio (fr) f
German: Funk (de) m, Rundfunk (de) m, Radio (de) n
Greek: ασύρματος (el) m (asýrmatos)
Hebrew: אַלְחוּט‎ m (alẖút)
Hindi: रेडियो (hi) (reḍiyo)
Japanese: 無線機 (むせんき, musenki), ワイヤレス (waiyaresu)
Polish: radio (pl) n
Portuguese: tecnologia sem fio f, tecnologia wireless f
Russian: ра́дио (ru) n (rádio)
Sindhi: ريتار‎ (sd)
Turkish: telsiz (tr)
Welsh: radio (cy) m, weiarles m

wireless connectivity to a computer network

Bulgarian: безжично свързване n (bezžično svǎrzvane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: langaton (fi)
German: WLAN (de) m
Portuguese: wireless (pt) f

VerbEdit

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, Part II, Chapter 1,^[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.