wireless

wire +‎ -less

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪ.ə(ɹ).ləs/

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wireless (not comparable)

1. Not having any wires.
2. Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.

• cordless

• wired

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

1. (uncountable) The medium of radio communication.

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

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:

     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. (uncountable) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

3. (dated) A radio set.

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

• wireless operator

wireless (third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed)

1. To send a message by wireless (by radio)
   • 1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet:

     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.

   • 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1,

     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.

Borrowed from English wireless.

wireless m (invariable)

1. wireless (transmission without wires)

wireless (invariable)

1. (computing) wireless

Borrowed from English wireless.

wireless m (uncountable)

1. (Guernsey) wireless, radio

Borrowed from English wireless.

wireless f (plural wireless)

1. (networking) wireless (wireless connectivity to a computer network)

wireless (plural wireless, comparable)

1. (of hardware) wireless (communicating without wired connections)

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