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Radio   /rˈeɪdiˌoʊ/   Listen
Radio

noun
1.
Medium for communication.  Synonyms: radiocommunication, wireless.
2.
An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals.  Synonyms: radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner, wireless.
3.
A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves.  Synonym: wireless.
verb
1.
Transmit messages via radio waves.
adjective
1.
Indicating radiation or radioactivity.



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"Radio" Quotes from Famous Books



... he isn't doin' very well in a business way just now, but that's partly from choice on Lulie's account. Nelse was a telegraph operator up in Brockton before the war. When the war came he went right into the Navy and started in at the Radio School studyin' to be a wireless operator. Then he was taken down with the 'flu' and had to give up study. Soon as he got well he went into the transport service. Lulie, you see, was teachin' school at Ostable, but ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... returned and so forth. Actuarial accounting works pretty well: well enough to run the juggernaut banking, insurance, and gambling industries on. It's good enough for divvying up the royalties paid by musical rights societies for radio airplay and live performance. And it's good enough for counting how many copies of a book are distributed ...
— Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books • Cory Doctorow

... rotate in the dimple on the back of the elbow just below the lateral epicondyle. The coronoid process may be detected on making deep pressure in the hollow in front of the joint. As the line of the radio-humeral joint is horizontal, while that of the ulno-humeral joint slopes obliquely downwards, the arm forms with the fully extended and supinated forearm an obtuse angle, opening laterally—the "carrying angle." This angle is usually more marked ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... very appropriate at this moment when radio has taken the country by storm, and aroused an enthusiasm never before equaled, that the possibilities for boys in this art should be brought out in the interesting and readable manner shown in the first book ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman

... the girl. "That'll be it. And they'll have a radio, too. Probably helicopters taking them out also. I'll go up and tell them to be sure and have room ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins


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