Airwave

  

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Airwave

Definition: Airwave

Airwave

Noun

1. Medium for radio and television broadcasting; "the program was on the air from 9 til midnight"; "the president used the airwaves to take his message to the people".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Airwave

Synonym: air (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Airwave

DomainTitle

Books

  • Airwave Affair (Career Adventure Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Airwave

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

airwave

16

airwave rank 1

5

airwave pegasus

4

airwave julius

3

airwave design sukalyn

3

airwave dave.com

2

airwave wireless

2

airwave paragliders

2

airwave by dj download tiesto

2

airwave electronics

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Airwave

Language Translations for "airwave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

"波 (airwaves). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

etherbewaking (Airwave Monitoring Service, Ether Surveillance). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

امواج رادیووتلویزیون . (various references)

   

French

  

surveillance du spectre radioélectrique (Airwave Monitoring Service), surveillance des fréquences radioélectriques (Airwave Monitoring Service). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airwaveay

   

Russian 

  

эфир (airwaves, ester, ether). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Airwave

Derivations

Words beginning with "airwave": airwaves. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Airwave"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "airwave" (pronounced e"rwā'v)
3-w ā' vmicrowave.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Airwave

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-r-v-w"

-1 letter: waiver, wavier.

-2 letters: aiver, aware, varia, waive, waver, wiver.

-3 letters: area, aria, aver, raia, rave, rive, vair, vara, vera, vier, view, wair, ware, wave, wear, weir, wire, wive.

-4 letters: air, are, ava, ave, awa, awe, ear, era, ire, raw, rei, rev, ria, var, vaw, via, vie, wae, war.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ai, ar, aw, er.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-r-v-w"
 

+1 letter: airwaves.

 

+5 letters: microwavable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Airwave


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 69 72 77 61 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..    .-.    .--.    .-    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01110010 01110111 01100001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#119 &#97 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0072 0077 0061 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35758489678871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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