radio

IPA: rˈeɪdioʊ

(uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
(countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
(countable) On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.
(countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
(Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.

(transitive, intransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
(transitive) To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.

Examples of "radio" in Sentences

Payola in radio is illegal when a song is played due to a payment but that fact is not disclosed.
And there's no way that listening to a radio is as distracting as talking on a handheld cellphone.
A: The only thing a contract's worth in radio is how much they're going to pay you when they fire you.
Writing about these stations makes me think about how much more passive the act of listening to the radio is these days.
I love the internet, but it's no more a book than a TV or the radio is a book (and weren't those supposed to replace books, too?).
Why lah they must use the radio channel to boast which club they went to last night, how they dance lah, yadda yadda yadda bla bla bla. * turn off radio*
Plus, the radio is another pound in the pack and, along with GPS and the locator beacon, one more electronic crutch that hunters can lean on to substitute for the sound legs of basic survival and navigational skills.
While the White House can count on the Rights vertically integrated media machine from cable TV to talk radio, from newspapers and magazines to book publishing and the Internet the opposition has mostly scattered voices on the Internet and in fledgling progressive talk radio to make its case.