radio

Short for radiotelegraphy.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪdiˌoʊ/, [ˈɹeɪɾiˌoʊ]

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radio (countable and uncountable, plural radios)

1. (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
2. (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
3. (countable) On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.
   • 2018 February 6, Jonathan Amos, “Elon Musk's huge Falcon Heavy rocket set for launch”, in BBC News‎, London, United Kingdom: BBC, retrieved 2018-02-07:

     David Bowie's classic hit Space Oddity will be looping on the radio as the car is hurled into an elliptical orbit that stretches out to Mars' orbit around the Sun.

4. (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
5. (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound recordings via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.

• (device to capture radio signal): tuner, wireless, receiver

radio (third-person singular simple present radios, present participle radioing, simple past and past participle radioed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).

   I think the boat is sinking; we'd better radio for help. / I radioed him already. / Radio the coordinates this time. / OK. I radioed them the coordinates.

2. (transitive) To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
   • 2002, Jack Dave, Death Bridge, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:

     “Could you call them here? I'd like to talk to them. Or if they're out in the field, radio them in.”

   • 2006, Angie Morgan, Leading from the front: no excuse leadership tactics for women, page 111:

     When I told him that they weren't back yet, he asked if we could radio them back early […] Radioing them in was fine with me.

   • 2006, Kimberly Johnson, Amy's Secret, page 14:

     When she arrived, she was told that Tad wasn't there and to have a seat and wait while they radioed him in.

• aroid, doira

radio (plural radio's)

1. radio

radio f (plural radios)

1. radio

Compare English radio.

radio

1. radio

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

radio c (singular definite radioen, plural indefinite radioer)

1. (technology) radio

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːdijoː/

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• Hyphenation: ra‧dio

radio m (plural radio's, diminutive radiootje n)

1. radio, tuner

• radiogolf
• radiohoofd

• IPA^(key): /raˈdi.o/

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radio (accusative singular radion, plural radioj, accusative plural radiojn)

1. radio

• radiofonio

• radiado
• vekradio (“clock radio”)

From the prefix radio-, probably after English radio.

radio

1. radio

An abbreviation of words like radiotélégramme, radiotélégraphiste, radiodiffusion, etc. Compare English radio.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.djo/

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radio f (plural radios)

1. radio, tuner

• radiophonique

• “radio” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• dorai, rodai, rôdai

An abbreviation based on words beginning with the root radio-. Compare English radio.

radio m (plural radios)

1. a radio

Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.

radio m (plural radios)

1. (uncountable) radium

Borrowed from Latin radius.

radio m (plural radios)

1. radius (of a circular object)
2. (anatomy) radius (bone in the forearm)

From radiar +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈradio/

radio (plural radii)

1. ray, beam, gleam
2. radio (device)
3. (geometry) radius
4. (of a wheel) spoke
5. (ichthyology) ray, skate

• (5) rayo

radio (plural radio-radio, first-person possessive radioku, second-person possessive radiomu, third-person possessive radionya)

1. radio

radio

1. radio

Borrowed from Latin radius. Compare raggio, an inherited doublet.

• Hyphenation: rà‧dio
• IPA^(key): /ˈradjo/

radio m (plural radi)

1. (anatomy) radius
2. Obsolete form of raggio.

• (radius): radiale, osso radiale

• radiale
• radiante

Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.

radio m (plural radi)

1. (chemistry) radium

Abbreviation. Compare English radio.

radio f (invariable)

1. radio

radio

1. first-person singular present indicative of radiare

radius (“spoke of a wheel”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.di.oː/

radiō (present infinitive radiāre, perfect active radiāvī, supine radiātum); first conjugation

1. (active) I cause to radiate, irradiate.
2. (passive) I radiate, emit beams.

• radiolus
• radiōsus
• radius

• → Catalan: radiar
• → English: radiate
• French: rayer (possibly)
• → French: radier
  • → Romanian: radia
• Italian: raggiare
• → Italian: radiare
• Old French: raier, rayer
• Old Occitan: rayar, rajar
  • Catalan: rajar
• Portuguese: raiar
• → Portuguese: radiar
• Spanish: rayar
• → Spanish: radiar

radiō

1. dative singular of radium
2. ablative singular of radium

• radio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• radio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from English radio.

radio m (plural radios)

1. radio

radio m (definite singular radioen, indefinite plural radioer, definite plural radioene)

1. (a) radio

• “radio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

radio m (definite singular radioen, indefinite plural radioar, definite plural radioane)

1. (a) radio
   • 1926, Olav Langeland, Rikare liv:

     Det vedunderet som me no kallar radio, hev synt det endå klårare. Det er ljosbylgjor som er so små og snøgge, og sume so langsame at ikkje noko menneskjeauga kann uppfanga dei.

     The miracle that we now call radio has shown this even clearer. It is light waves that are so small and fast, and some so slow that no human eye can perceive them.

• “radio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Compare English radio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrad.jɔ/

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radio n

1. radio (a device that can receive the signal sent over radio waves)
2. radio station

• (radio): radioodbiornik, odbiornik radiowy
• (radio station): rozgłośnia, radiostacja, stacja radiowa

• radio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French radio, German Radio; compare also English radio.

radio n (plural radiouri)

1. radio

• IPA^(key): /râːdio/
• Hyphenation: ra‧di‧o

rȃdio m (Cyrillic spelling ра̑дио)

1. radio

• IPA^(key): [ˈra̠.ð̞jo̞], [ˈra̠.djo̞]
• See also: radón, rodio, diario

Apocopic form of radiorreceptor

radio m or f (plural radios)

1. (electronics, home appliance) radio (device)

Usually feminine, but often used as masculine in much of Latin America.

Apocopic form of radiotransmisión and/or radiodifusora

radio f (plural radios)

1. (communication) radio (industry, signal)

Borrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of rayo.

radio m (plural radios)

1. (anatomy) radius
2. (geometry) radius

Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.

radio m (plural radios)

1. (chemistry) radium

radio

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of radiar.

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radio c

1. (uncountable) radio (communication using radio waves)
2. radio; receiver (device for receiving broadcast radio signals)

• radio-

• radio in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

radio (plural radiolar)

1. radio

radio

1. radio

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “радио”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika