Meaning

Not having any wires..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not having any wires.
2. Functioning without an external wired connection.
3. (uncountable) The medium of radio communication.
4. (uncountable, networking) A wireless connectivity to a computer network.
5. (dated, chiefly British) A radio set.
6. (dated or obsolete, transitive) To send (a message) by wireless or radio.

Example Sentences

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.

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. […]”

If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

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

I heard you on my wireless back in '52

Word Forms

• wirelesses
• wirelessing
• wirelessed

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Use wireless when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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