wireless

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: wire=less

CIDE DICTIONARY

wireless, a. 

 Having no wire;  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Although more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

wireless, n. 

 Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wireless, n. & adj.
--n.
1 esp. Brit. a (in full wireless set) a radio receiving set. b the transmission and reception of radio signals.

Idiom

wireless telegraphy = RADIO-TELEGRAPHY.

Usage

Now old-fashioned, esp. with ref. to broadcasting, and superseded by radio.
2 = wireless telegraphy.
--adj. lacking or not requiring wires.

THESAURUS

wireless

Teletype, Wirephoto, audio-frequency, beam, broadcast, cabinet, chassis, communication, communicational, communications, console, electronics, facsimile, headphone, headset, heterodyne, high-frequency, housing, line radio, magnetotelephonic, microtelephonic, monotelephonic, newscast, phototelegraphic, radiate, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, radiobroadcast, radiophone, radiophotography, radiotelegraphic, radiotelegraphy, radiotelephone, radiotelephony, receiver, receiving set, send, set, shortwave, sign off, sign on, signal, sportscast, superheterodyne, telecommunication, telecommunicational, telegraphic, telephonic, telephotographic, television, thermotelephonic, transmit, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless set, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephone, wireless telephony

ROGET THESAURUS

wireless

Hearing

N hearing, audition, auscultation, eavesdropping, audibility, acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear, musical ear, ear for music, ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus, eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane, ear trumpet, speaking trumpet, hearing aid, stethoscope, earshot, hearing distance, hearing, hearing range, sound, carrying distance, telephone, phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio, police radio, two-way radio, walkie-talkie, handie-talkie, citizen's band, CB, amateur radio, ham radio, short-wave radio, police band, ship-to-shore radio, airplane radio, control tower communication, (communication), electronic devices, phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon, microphone, directional microphone, mike, hand mike, lapel microphone, phonograph needle, stylus, diamond stylus, pickup, reading head (electronic devices), hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in, auditory, audience, otology, otorhinolaryngology, otologist, otorhinolaryngologist, hearing, auditory, auricular, acoustic, phonic, arrectis auribus, Int, hark, hark ye!, hear!, list, listen!, O yes!, Oyez!, listen up, listen here!, hear ye!, attention!, achtung.