I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a radio programme
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I was once interviewed for a radio programme.
a radio/electrical/radar signal
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A transmitter connected to the door bell sends radio signals to a portable receiver.
a radio/television broadcast
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The President addressed the nation in a television broadcast.
a radio/television commentary
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The royal wedding will be accompanied by a live television commentary.
a radio/TV appearance
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John hated the endless TV appearances to promote each new album.
a television/radio reporter
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He told television reporters that he had no plans to resign.
a TV/radio play (= a play written to be performed on TV/radio )
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This horror story would make a good radio play.
a TV/television/radio drama
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The book has been made into a television drama.
a TV/television/radio show
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What’s your favourite TV show?
BBC Radio 1Xtra
independent television/radio/broadcasting etc British English (= not owned or paid for by the government )
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independent television companies
local radio
machine/computer/radio etc operator
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computers which can be used by untrained operators
radio beacon
radio contact (= communication by radio )
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Air traffic control had lost radio contact with the pilot.
radio telescope
radio wave
talk radio
television/newspaper/radio coverage (= provided by television newspapers etc )
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The private lives of celebrities get a lot of newspaper coverage.
television/radio/newspaper advertising
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Both candidates are spending millions on television advertising.
transistor radio
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
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There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
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Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
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In theory, there should be lots of pent-up demand for commercial radio in Britain.
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Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
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Other strategies in the campaign included large outside hoardings, and a slot on commercial radio during journey-to-work times.
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For commercial television and radio stations ads are their life-blood.
independent
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Most other independent radio stations had either had their equipment destroyed or had broadcast music programmes and other safe material.
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Read in studio One of the region's independent radio stations has won a top award at the radio Oscars.
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The 21 independent local radio stations all over the Republic claim they are getting audiences of up to three million listeners each week.
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And there are now 15 independent radio stations in London alone, compared with three in 1979.
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The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio, London's independent local radio station.
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These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations.
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The independent radio sector is also thought likely to attract foreign interest.
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This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students' official youth organization.
local
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They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio .
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And she used her limited telephone privileges to air her opinions live on a local radio talk show.
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This development is not unconnected with the development of local radio and the popularity of the phone-in programme.
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Those in local radio believe that the Church should put more resources into encouraging and developing modern music and musicians.
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The idea of local radio fitted snugly with local ownership, like the provincial press.
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I want listeners up and down the country to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism.
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National daily and Sunday newspaper cookery writers. Local radio stations.
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The band will also record public service announcements for local radio stations, urging petitions to protest the arrest.
national
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Paul had given public undertakings on national radio and television that it would.
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Mather its advertising agency in charge of buying commercial spots on national radio networks.
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Following the announcement of the revised schedule the premises of the national radio station were briefly occupied by a group of soldiers.
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Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands.
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Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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Thousands turn up for parties every weekend and tune in to the national radio show he does with Djaimin.
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The relocation of large companies is likely to attract national television, radio and newspaper coverage.
■ NOUN
broadcast
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Old photographs, and some archive film footage or earlier radio broadcasts would also be included, depending on the period being studied.
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Do old radio broadcasts , minor record labels and second-rate artists merit box sets?
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All radio broadcasts and church publications continue to be closely monitored by the government.
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Elites can more easily assess the situation and attitudes of both allies and rivals by monitoring television and radio broadcasts .
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Chamberlain's dramatic radio broadcast announcing the Declaration of War in 1939.
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In time, books, radio broadcasts , films, and professional journals were added to the list.
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Using radio broadcasts and posters, they had warned the locals that they would be shot if they turned out to vote.
car
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Carfax adaptors were designed for use with existing car radios .
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A police car radio cackled raucously.
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She switched on the car radio and hummed to the beat of the pop music.
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I flipped on the car radio , tapping on the steering wheel in time to the music.
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So mobiles are the new car radios .
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His car radio was stolen on another occasion.
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The other began to talk rapidly into the hand mike of the car radio .
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I push the button on the car radio to 97. 5, La Nueva Onda.
cassette
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The amount of explosive hidden in the radio cassette player which destroyed the aircraft was not detectable by any X-ray equipment.
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Thieves broke into five cars, smashing the nearside windows and taking radio cassette players and cash.
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A £165 radio cassette player was also taken from a car parked in North Road.
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Wilmot, of Waterloo, Liverpool, is jointly accused with another man of stealing a radio cassette player from a car.
contact
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Airport officials said there had been no hint of trouble until radio contact was suddenly lost three minutes from touchdown.
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I am in radio contact with Earth.
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It took away the normal drudgery of long flights with little radio contact and constant headings.
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The report also faults the balloon crew for failing to maintain radio contact with the ground.
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Suddenly the yacht changed course for Margate and at this point Venturous lost radio contact with the shore unit.
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Fujimori said previous radio contacts broke off after the guerrillas held an impromptu news conference, disrupting negotiations up to that point.
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Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot.
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Immediately, it was wrapped in an envelope of incandescent gas, and radio contact was lost.
frequency
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The product is the result of an agreement signed in October 1991 for joint development of an FRAM-compatible radio frequency transponder chip.
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The latest is an outpatient procedure with a new gizmo that removes throat tissues with radio frequencies .
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They also found a piece of paper with the radio frequencies used by police locally and nationally, said Mr Cornwall.
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She wanted tactical call signs, authentication codes, radio frequencies .
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Radiation in the optical range and at radio frequencies can be detected either locally or at Earth stations.
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The technology handles multiple calls on a single radio frequency by separating them in time.
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The observed profiles were cross-correlated with a standard pulse profile appropriate for each radio frequency to obtain accurate pulse arrival times.
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It then encodes them and transmits the conversation over a range of radio frequencies .
interview
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On the morning I flew overseas to attend a career seminar I heard a radio interview about career change.
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Detective Chief Inspector Kenneth Harris, in a radio interview , announced that another line of enquiry was being pursued.
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Just before his radio interview was over, he showed that he knows much more than running.
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It is quite a good idea to take along samples to a radio interview .
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He's done radio interviews and had his picture in the local papers!
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For a radio interview , I'd do my own homework, and I've always believed in doing it thoroughly.
message
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Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages .
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The initial radio message had beggared belief.
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All those stories about getting radio messages through the teeth turn out to be true.
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Two ammunition ships appeared on radar, heading full-speed in the wrong direction, ignoring radio messages to return.
operator
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He began to receive messages purporting to come from his deceased friend, who had been a radio operator .
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Everybody was shook but especially the other radio operator and myself.
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If the radio operator kept his mouth shut, the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors.
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Back at bomber command, the radio operator received the distress call.
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He even finds himself giving out gardening advice to local radio operators from his car.
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At 1.20 a.m. the ferry's radio operator sent out the first Mayday call.
personality
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But the scenery was not all friendly here where conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh grew up.
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We have a number of radio personalities on public broadcasting who write books.
pirate
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That's our very own pirate radio .
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Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
programme
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But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island.
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All of this favours the growth of radio programme suppliers.
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They wanted to present a collage of what they had discovered in the format of a modern day local radio programme .
show
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Following this success, Procter &038; Gamble tried radio shows which also featured stories that aimed to sell soap.
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He will speak to radio shows that broadcast over a tin can and lengths of string.
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Hancock's Half Hour may have finished for him, but there was another big radio show on the way.
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Focus on the Family, whose radio show is heard on 2, 000 stations, is officially non-political.
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On December 13, she appeared on Chris's Virgin radio show .
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She had gotten her tip from a radio show .
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After Rush Limbaugh read the fax on his radio show , Gingrich announced plans to block the administration proposal.
signal
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This is a star's radio signal .
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It is a manner of speech now increasingly rare in the world, faded and ever weakening like a lost radio signal .
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Twenty minutes after the first radio signal , Lawton finished his pre-flight checks.
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The equipment compresses the radio signal into digital form, then adds buffers to make up for any sound lost in transmission.
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But if so, we might have expected to he contacted by them, or at least to detect their radio signals .
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There is a seven-second delay between transmission of the radio signal and when it can be heard on computer.
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Most of the time, though, he processed requests to collect radio signals from targeted coordinates.
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Alec monitored a variety of radio signals , but rarely responded himself.
station
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She listened to a debate on the subject on a New York radio station .
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I think the radio station was interested in a certain amount of regulated chaos.
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The 21 independent local radio stations all over the Republic claim they are getting audiences of up to three million listeners each week.
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The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio, London's independent local radio station .
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This will include all Big City, Magic and Kiss radio stations .
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It's a simple matter to lock into the telephone land lines through the Piraeus radio station .
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The first main targets are the central government buildings and the radio station .
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Independent radio stations had been shut down, while troops stationed themselves outside newspapers offices and took over transmission towers.
talk
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Television and talk radio have taken on that job.
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And humor, after all, is the sugar coating that makes talk radio a smooth pill to swallow.
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The first 20 minutes were no fluke, as they are probably saying on talk radio shows in Kentucky right this moment.
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Newspapers and talk radio would find themselves with large chunks of blank space and dead air.
telescope
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Despite the recent decline in interest, there were several radio telescopes set to receive the signal when it came.
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In astronomy the transmitter is usually a radio telescope , and it usually acts also as the detector.
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Perversely, doing this will require the biggest and best of radio telescope arrays.
transistor
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He disliked the transistor radio he'd saved up for to get Lavinia for her birthday three years ago.
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These sets are no bigger than a transistor radio and cost as little as $ 100 at the nearby discount electronics store.
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More stories, more coffee and another try with Pete's transistor radio .
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Also his transistor radio and his pocket piece of purple fluorite.
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It is less easy to forgive the carriers of blaring transistor radios , a sacrilege in such surroundings.
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The wrappings had come off: it was a shattered transistor radio .
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Lines of washing hung between the caravans, transistor radios played loudly.
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Roosters crowed, transistor radios were turned full volume to occupy the minutes of the unemployed.
transmitter
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Houses will be equipped with radio transmitters , allowing callers to shop around for the best deals.&038;.
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The birds were outfitted with radio transmitters so that they can be tracked.
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Here you simply ensure that the mechanical linkage will give more than sufficient control and then adjust the radio transmitter in suit.
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It works with a tiny radio transmitter and receiver in the handset and the base.
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And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power, navigational gear or a radio transmitter .
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But it was an expensive raincoat, because one of its buttons is a small radio transmitter .
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It's a short-wave radio transmitter .
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There was also £500 in one-pound notes, and a five-valve radio transmitter .
wave
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The cavity magnetron was simple, rugged and cheap, and produced short wavelength radio waves - microwaves.
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Radio antennas receive radio waves and change them into electrical signals which are then turned into sound by the speakers.
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The radio waves may come not only from transmitters but power supplies, motors or other electrical devices.
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By surrounding the radio with aluminum foil, we neutralize or block the radio waves .
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The field theory progressed even more dramatically when, a few decades later, Hertz produced the radio waves predicted by the programme.
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And the key to being small was to use short radio waves .
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We have, in fact, as well as polluting our environment chemically also polluted it with radio waves of varying frequencies.
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The behavior of light or radio waves is similar.
■ VERB
hear
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But all I could hear was the police radio chatter.
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On the morning I flew overseas to attend a career seminar I heard a radio interview about career change.
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The story hasn't changed since we heard it on the radio .
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I heard it over the radio a few minutes ago and I cried.
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I haven't heard anything on the radio , seen nothing in the press, nothing on the box.
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Those who heard the debate on radio thought Republican candidate Richard M.. Nixon carried the day.
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I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio .
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I heard it on the radio .
listen
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In Darcy's Utopia we will make do with listening to the radio .
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He was some one we grew up listening to on the radio .
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Jackknifed over the whisky bottle, Barry listened to the radio commentary in closing-time light.
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Do you ever get frustrated listening to the radio ?
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Great for long journeys, or whenever you want to listen to the radio in private.
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But she loves to read and would rather listen to the radio than watch television.
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They rode, without speaking, listening to the radio .
play
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Actor Bruce Willis will play radio star Willis Conover.
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At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.
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I've not cared for the last few at all, but this one I'd definitely play on the radio .
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Bernstein as its new basketball play-by-\#play radio announcer Tuesday.
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It was played on two radio stations, but there was no surrender.
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All I can play is the radio .
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Charlie Sheen plays a radio astronomer who gets canned when he receives a transmission from space.&038;.
use
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And the key to being small was to use short radio waves.
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The Tesla coil, which he invented in 1891, is still widely used in radio and television sets.
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Expresspost is a fast messenger collection and delivery service available in London using radio controlled motor cycles and vans.
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A cracker can also eavesdrop using wiretapping, radio , or auxiliary ports on computers, which are used by network programs.
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We had to hand-prop to start the engine, use a hand-held radio and our hand-held Magellan, purchased for this leg.
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Need further study Bands used by radio determination systems need further study, the Spectrum Investigation has determined.
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Do parents know the school will use that particular radio station when the school is to be closed at short notice?
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Channel 3 Co-pilot's microphone and headset when using the radio or intercom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
commercial radio/TV/channel etc
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At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
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By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
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Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
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The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
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Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
have (got) the TV/radio/washing machine etc on
pirate radio/TV (station)
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That's our very own pirate radio.
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Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a radio personality
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Can you turn your radio down a little bit?
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Do you have a radio in your car?
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I'm going to buy a new radio for the car.
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I've often heard that song on the radio , but I can't think what it's called.
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In the evening I usually watch TV or listen to the radio .
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Madden has a daily radio show on KSFO.
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Rush Limbaugh is one of the biggest names in talk radio .
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The story was written specially for radio .
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We've lost radio contact.
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We encourage more use of radio in the public interest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here you simply ensure that the mechanical linkage will give more than sufficient control and then adjust the radio transmitter in suit.
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However, there are some occasions when sending a photograph to a radio station is not such a bad idea.
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Maxwell, host of a weekend gospel hour on a Compton radio station, was jubilant.
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The 15-minute radio program is wonderfully old-fashioned.
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The gin palaces are out, polished brass, blaring radios and peaked hats, and they don't care.
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They also found a piece of paper with the radio frequencies used by police locally and nationally, said Mr Cornwall.
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Unlike radio , the anchor / readers do not have to be in eye contact with the control room.
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We had to fight to make our way through as rifles, packs and radio aerials snagged on bushes and branches.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
control
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Level crossings along the route will be converted to radio control , and will communicate with both control centre and trains.
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Batut, whose work predates radio remote control , triggered his shutter by the use of slow burning fuse.
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He radioed the airport control tower to confirm that they could receive his transponder signal.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
commercial radio/TV/channel etc
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At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
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By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
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Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
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The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
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Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
pirate radio/TV (station)
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That's our very own pirate radio.
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Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I urgently radioed the information back to headquarters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But on this night, the Cali controller radioed different instructions to Flight 965.
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She radioed down to her senior keeper who called the vet.
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They radioed for help and were rescued by the Isle of Man lifeboat.
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Two officers radioed his warning to control.
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When he couldn't manage that either, he radioed for assistance.