wireless — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Not having any wires.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

2. Functioning without an external wired connection.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   wireless headphones

   wireless charging

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   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.

Noun

1. The medium of radio communication.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   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. […]”

2. A wireless connectivity to a computer network.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

3. A radio set.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Dated
   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

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

   I heard you on my wireless back in '52

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   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.

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Dated
   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   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.

   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.

Adjective

1. having no wires

   Antonyms

   wired

   Examples

   a wireless security system

Noun

1. medium for communication

   Synonyms

   radioradiocommunication

   Broader terms

   broadcasting

2. transmission by radio waves

   Broader terms

   telecommunicationtelecom

3. an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals

   Synonyms

   radio receiverreceiving setradio setradiotuner

   Broader terms

   receiverreceiving system

4. a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves

   Synonyms

   radio

   Broader terms

   communication system