wireless — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Not having any wires.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

2. Functioning without an external wired connection.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   wireless headphones

   wireless charging

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Sostantivo

1. The medium of radio communication.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

   Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

3. A radio set.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • datato
   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

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

   I heard you on my wireless back in '52

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • datato
   • obsoleto
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   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.

Aggettivo

1. having no wires

   Contrari

   wired

   Esempi

   a wireless security system

Sostantivo

1. medium for communication

   Sinonimi

   radioradiocommunication

   Termini più generali

   broadcasting

2. transmission by radio waves

   Termini più generali

   telecommunicationtelecom

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

   Sinonimi

   radio receiverreceiving setradio setradiotuner

   Termini più generali

   receiverreceiving system

4. a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves

   Sinonimi

   radio

   Termini più generali

   communication system