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Not having any wires. examples
Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves. examples
usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses
(uncountable) The medium of radio communication. quotations examples
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. […]”
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network. examples
(dated, chiefly Britain) A radio set. quotations examples
I heard you on my wireless back in '52
1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”
third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed
To send a message by wireless (by radio) quotations examples
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.
1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet
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.
1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1