Meaning of radio in English

radio

noun

/ˈreɪ.di.oʊ/ uk

/ˈreɪ.di.əʊ/

plural radios

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A1 [ C ]

a piece of electronic equipment used for listening to radio broadcasts:

a car radio

I switched on the radio.

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A1 [ S or U ]

the programs that you hear when you listen to the radio:

I heard a good program on the radio last night.

I don't listen to radio much.

B1 [ U ]

the system or work of broadcasting sound programs for the public to listen to:

a local radio station

She's got some kind of job in radio.

[ C or U ]

a piece of electronic equipment that can send and receive spoken messages or signals, or the messages or signals that are sent or received:

We sent a message over the radio/by radio.

The children got radio-controlled toy cars for Christmas.

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She set her clock by the time signal on the radio.
We've had complaints that you've been playing your radio too loud.
You turn this dial to find a different radio station.
I heard a really interesting program on the radio this morning.
I rigged up a temporary radio aerial from a coat hanger.

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radio

verb [ I or T ]

/ˈreɪ.di.oʊ/ uk

/ˈreɪ.di.əʊ/

to send a message to someone by radio:

We'll have to radio for more supplies.

They radioed their base for help.

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(Definition of radio from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

radio | Intermediate English

radio

noun [ C/U ]

/ˈreɪ·diˌoʊ/

plural radios

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a device for receiving, and sometimes broadcasting, sound messages, or the receiving or sending of sound messages:

[ C ] I listen to the radio in the morning to get the weather report.

Radio is also the work of broadcasting sound programs for the public to listen to.

physics

Radio waves are the energy waves of a certain length that are used in radio broadcasts.

radio

verb [ I/T ]

/ˈreɪ·diˌoʊ/

present participle radioing | past tense and past participle radioed

to send a message to someone by radio:

[ I/T ] They radioed (their base) for help.

(Definition of radio from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of radio

radio

Sometimes, he yearns again for the simplicity of his transistor radio.

From OCRegister

But whoever did it said nothing on the radio or to their crewmates about it.

From The Atlantic

I assume that they were are all hits on the radio or in the clubs.

From NPR

Going back to your start in the business, what is it that drew you to radio?

From Billboard

Like the word's source, much of the band's music can't be heard on the radio.

From NPR

There was almost as much variety on the radio back then as we have now on television, including a large amount of children's programming.

From Wired

The radio traffic is just unbelievable on some busy nights out there.

From NPR

I thought of this topic a while ago, during my radio show, when one of the callers had a question regarding her life.

From Huffington Post

When they go out for a mission, they may carry along with them a dozen different types of radios.

From NPR

And radio rehearsals didn't take very long so you could do six shows a day.

From Huffington Post

I like the idea of a hotspot with all three of those radios.

From Gizmodo

It threatened to completely withdraw from the radio network unless its ads are removed from the show.

From Huffington Post

We do not have preserved materials suitable for radio-carbon dating.

From NPR

Talk to reporters, call a local radio show, or speak up at a town-hall meeting.

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Collocations with radio

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advent of radio

The process of decoupling became much more pronounced with the advent of radio and other uses of electromagnetic radiation, which travel across space with minimal disruption of the earth's surface.

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amateur radio

It is to be expected that even the amateur radio astronomy community might have the resources to check the habstars listed.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

analogue radio

I am personally uncomfortable about the idea that broadcasters who represent specific religions might have access nationally to analogue radio.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

收音機, 廣播節目, （無線電）廣播系統…

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