noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
tiny
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It works with a tiny radio transmitter and receiver in the handset and the base.
■ NOUN
radio
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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 .
■ VERB
use
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Scientists are using transmitters to track the movements and migrations of eiders that nest near Prudhoe Bay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A handset would contain an ultrasonic transmitter and the television fitted with a matching receiver.
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In the transmitter , infra-red is modulated to carry the analogue sound information which then fills the room.
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Remember all the hullabaloo over the golf ball with the transmitter inside it.
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The cell sites have transmitters and receivers connected to antennas that communicate with the local phone system.
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The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release.
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We've picked up his transmitter .
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What is needed is a transmitter sufficiently cheap, compact and low-powered to be installed in every home.