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Wireless   /wˈaɪrlɪs/   Listen
Wireless

noun
1.
Medium for communication.  Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication.
2.
Transmission by radio waves.
3.
An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals.  Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner.
4.
A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves.  Synonym: radio.
adjective
1.
Having no wires.



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"Wireless" Quotes from Famous Books



... know. I mean, I did not see any when we were out there to-day. I don't understand it. What can he be doing with wireless so ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea - Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar • Janet Aldridge
... knew nothing, he could truthfully testify. And if now Hemingway claimed to be Henry Brownell, he had no certain knowledge to the contrary. That through his adventure Hemingway would come to harm did not greatly disturb him. He foresaw that his friend need only send a wireless from Nantucket and at the wharf witnesses would swarm to establish his identity and make it evident the detective had blundered. And in the meanwhile Brownell and his wife, in some settlement still further removed from observation, would for the second ...
— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis
... no poor territory for success. Telegraph and telephone and wireless methods of communication, electric light and power, railroads and inter-urban car service, farm tractors, passenger automobiles, motor trucks, and the airplane have so revolutionized the inter-relations of men ...
— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins
... chilly, unprotesting; and she, before she fell asleep again, loved him for his sturdiness, and saw the drama of his riding by night to the frightened household on the distant farm; pictured children standing at a window, waiting for him. He suddenly had in her eyes the heroism of a wireless operator on a ship in a collision; of an explorer, fever-clawed, deserted by his bearers, but ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... feminine ones—to even things up when it comes to getting their work in. Suppose they had called my star Agamemnon or Bill McCarty or something like that instead of Phoebe. Every time one of those old boys touched their calamity button and sent me down one of their wireless pieces of bad luck, I could talk back and tell 'em what I thought of 'em in suitable terms. But you can't address such ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry


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