# wireless

Pronunciation: US say "WYR-luhs" /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/; UK say "WY-uh-luhs" /ˈwaɪə.ləs/

## Adjective

1. Working without needing to be connected to anything else by a wire or cable.
   - Simple: Working without a wire that connects it to something else.
   - _The office switched to wireless keyboards to cut down on cable clutter._
   - _The speaker is fully wireless, so you can carry it from room to room._
3. Having no wires of any kind.
   - Simple: With no wires at all.
   - _Many women switch to wireless bras for comfort, giving up the support of an underwire._
   - _Unlike the bendable version, this rag doll is wireless, so its arms and legs flop freely._

## Noun

2. Access to a computer network through a connection that uses no wires.
   - Simple: A way to connect a computer or phone to a network without wires.
   - _The hotel's wireless was too slow for a video call, so she used her phone instead._
   - _Can you give me the password for the wireless?_
4. Radio as a medium of communication, used to send messages and broadcasts.
   - Simple: Radio, as a way to send and hear messages and sounds.
   - _Word of the rescue reached the mainland by wireless within the hour._
   - _Before television, families gathered in the evening to hear plays and concerts over the wireless._

## Noun

5. A radio set, the device used to listen to radio broadcasts. *(dated, British)*
   - Simple: A radio set for listening to programs.
   - _She kept a battered wireless on the kitchen windowsill and listened to the shipping forecast every night._
   - _The museum's collection includes wirelesses from every decade of the last century._

## Verb

6. To send a message or other information by radio. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To send a message by radio.
   - _The expedition wirelessed news of its safe arrival to the base camp._
   - _Captains were told to wireless their position every four hours._

## Origin

Formed from wire + the suffix -less.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wireless (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).