wireless

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Not having any wires.

2. 2

   Functioning without an external wired connection.

   wireless headphones

   wireless charging

   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.

Substantiv

1. 1

   The medium of radio communication.

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

   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. 2

   A wireless connectivity to a computer network.

   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

3. 3

   veraltendA radio set.

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

   I heard you on my wireless back in '52

   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. 1

   veraltendTo send (a message) by wireless or radio.

   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.

Formen

Plural

wirelesses

Präteritum

wirelessed

Partizip II

wirelessed

Partizip I

wirelessing

3. Person Singular

wirelesses