wirelessとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪ.ə(ɹ).ləs/

形容詞

wireless (not comparable)

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

同意語

• cordless

反意語

• wired

名詞

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, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

3. (dated, chiefly Britain) A radio set.

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

   • 1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”:

     I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two

派生語

• wireless operator

動詞

wireless (三人称単数 現在形 wirelesses, 現在分詞 wirelessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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,^[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.