• n. 收音機；無線電廣播設備
• vi. 用無線電進行通信
• vt. 用無線電發(fā)送
• n. (Radio)人名；(西)拉迪奧

縮寫自 radio-telephony,無線通話。

radio

radio: [20] Radio began life, in the first decade of the 20th century, as an abbreviation of radiotelegraphy, a compound based on Latin radius. This originally meant ‘staff, stake’, but it is its secondary meanings that have contributed significantly to English: ‘spoke of a wheel’, for instance, lies behind English radius [16], and the notion of a ‘ray’ has produced radiant [15], radiate [17], radium [19] (etymologically a metal emitting ‘rays’), and indeed ray. Radiotelegraphy itself denoted the sending of messages by electromagnetic ‘rays’. Radar [20], coined in the USA in 1941, is an acronym formed from radio detection and ranging.
=> radar, radiate, radius, radium, ray

radio (n.)

"wireless transmission of voice signals with radio waves," 1907, abstracted from earlier combinations such as radio-receiver (1903), radiophone (1881), radio-telegraphy (1898), from radio- as a comb. form of Latin radius "beam." Use for "radio receiver" is first attested 1913; sense of "sound broadcasting as a medium" is from 1913.

It is not a dream, but a probability that the radio will demolish blocs, cut the strings of red tape, actuate the voice "back home," dismantle politics and entrench the nation's executive in a position of power unlike that within the grasp of any executive in the world's history. ["The Reading Eagle," Reading, Pa., U.S.A., March 16, 1924]

In U.S., stations were broadcasting news and music by late 1920, but the new medium caught on nationwide as a fad in the winter of 1921-22; as late as July 1921 the "New York Times" had called it wireless telephony, and wireless remained more widespread until World War II, when military preference for radio turned the tables. As an adjective by 1912, "by radio transmission;" meaning "controlled by radio" from 1974. Radio _______ "radio station or service from _______" is recorded from 1920. A radio shack (1946) was a small building housing radio equipment.

radio (v.)

1916, from radio (n.). Related: Radioed; radioing.

1. When did the word " radio " come into common use?

" radio " 一詞何時開始普遍使用的 呢 ?

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.

社區(qū)廣播電臺和商業(yè)廣播電臺一直是有區(qū)別的。

來自柯林斯例句

3. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports.

不用說，所有這些都是從電臺報道中采集來的二手材料。

來自柯林斯例句

4. I use the short-wave radio to get the latest war news.

我用短波收音機收聽最新的戰(zhàn)事新聞。

來自柯林斯例句

5. If something's a sure-fire hit then Radio One will play it.

如果哪首歌一定會火，那么第一頻道肯定會播出。

來自柯林斯例句