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Definition: RADIO- |
RADIO-1. A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radio-muscular, radio-carpal. |
| Synonyms by domain: n. (public administration), radio (post & telecompost & telecom, transportationpublic administrationeuropean unioncomputing), radio set (public administration), radios (statistics), research and development information officer (information), Rural Area Delivery of Information and Organization (food & agriculture, european union), wireless (post & telecom, transportationpublic administration), wireless receiver, wireless set. |
Crosswords: RADIO- |
| Non-English Usage: "RADIO-" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (radio-), Italian (radio-), Swedish (broadcast). |
| "RADIO-" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "RADIO-" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "RADIO-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "音机 (radio), 射 (shoot). (various references) | |
Danish | radiosondestation (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
Dutch | radiosondestation (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
Finnish | radioluotausasema (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
French | station de radiosondage (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
German | Radiosondenstation (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
Greek | σταθμός ραδιοβολίσεων (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
Hungarian | radioaktív (radioactive), radio-, rádió- (wireless). (various references) | |
Italian | radio-. (various references) | |
Korean | 라""오 (radio). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adio-ray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estação de radiossondagem (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
Spanish | estación de radiosonda (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
Swedish | radiosondstation (radio- sonde observing station, radiosonde station). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aroid, radio. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arid, orad, raid, road. | |
-2 letters: ado, aid, air, dor, oar, ora, rad, ria, rid, rod. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, do, id, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-o-r" | |
+1 letter: adroit, aroids, hairdo, inroad, ordain, radios, roadie. | |
+2 letters: acaroid, adoring, advisor, airdrop, ambroid, andiron, android, aneroid, auditor, avodire, avoider, carotid, cordial, corrida, dariole, diatron, dilator, diorama, dipolar, exordia, goliard, hairdos, inboard, inroads, kilorad, labroid, mirador, ordains, ordinal, padroni, parodic, parodoi, parotid, picador, poniard, radioed, roadies, sadiron, sarcoid, sparoid. | |
+3 letters: additory, adorning, adroiter, adroitly, advisors, advisory, airbound, airdrome, airdrops, amberoid, ambroids, andirons, androids, aneroids, antidora, arillode, arilloid, arointed, asteroid, auditors, auditory, avodires, avoiders, boarding, braconid, broadish, cancroid, cardioid, carotids, ceratoid, coadmire, coracoid, cordials, cordwain, corridas, darioles, debonair, deviator, dialoger, diaspora, diaspore, diatrons, dicrotal, dictator, dilators, dilatory, dinosaur, dioptral, dioramas, dioramic, disfavor, doornail, draconic, duration, exordial, forbidal, foresaid, fricando, gabbroid, goliards, gyroidal, hadronic, highroad, hoarding, hyracoid, ideogram, idocrase, idolater, idolator, idolatry, inboards, intrados, ironclad, keratoid, kilorads, labroids, marigold, mediator, miradors, myriapod, nondairy, ordained, ordainer, ordinals, ordinand, ordinary, ordinate, organdie, oribatid, overlaid, overpaid, paranoid, parodied, parodies, parodist, parotids, parotoid, picadors, podagric, podiatry, poniards, prodigal, pyranoid, racemoid, radiator, radioing, radioman, radiomen, railroad, raindrop, rationed, reordain, rhodamin, rigadoon, rigaudon, roadkill, roadside, sadirons, sarcoids, sardonic, sarodist, solidary, sparoids, sporadic, tailored, tandoori, teratoid, tornadic, toroidal, traditor, trinodal, tripodal. | |
+4 letters: abdicator, according, accordion, adoration, adoringly, adroitest, adsorbing, affording, aforesaid, airdromes, amberoids, amortised, amortized, androecia, aperiodic, aphorised, aphorized, arachnoid, arborized, arillodes, armadillo, arytenoid, asteroids, atrophied, audiogram, auditoria, bacteroid, bandolier, barricado, billboard, biohazard, boardings, boardlike, braconids, broadside, broadtail, brocading, bromeliad, calorized, cancroids, caprioled, carcinoid, cardioids, chancroid, charioted, chipboard, choroidal, chromatid, clarioned, clipboard, coadmired, coadmires, cochaired, coracoids, coralloid, cordially, cordwains, coriander, corrading, corydalis, cowardice, dedicator, deviators, deviatory, diachrony, dialogers, diarrhoea, diasporas, diaspores, dichondra, dichromat, dictators, dicumarol, dinosaurs, disaccord, disfavors, doctrinal, dogearing, dominator, doornails, draconian, dragonish, dropsical, durations, dysphoria, editorial, estradiol, feodaries, floriated, forbidals, formamide, girandole, gladiator, goliardic, gradation, grandiose, grandioso, granitoid, handiwork, hardihood, highroads, hoardings, holandric, holidayer, hybridoma, hydration, hyracoids, ideograms, ideograph, idocrases, idolaters, idolators, indagator, indicator, inundator, ironclads, jaborandi, jarovized, kaiserdom, kickboard, leporidae, maladroit, marigolds, mediators, mediatory, meditator, middorsal, midrashot, moralised, moralized, myocardia, myriapods, notarized, ordainers, ordaining, ordinance, ordinands, ordinates, organdies, organised, organized, oribatids, outdaring, outraised, overplaid, paranoids, parapodia, parboiled, pardoning, parodists, parodying, parotoids, picadores, picofarad, pinafored, podiatric, polarised, polarized, poniarded, predation, preordain, primordia, prodigals, pyridoxal, radiation, radiators, radicchio, radiogram, radiology, railroads, raindrops, randomize, redaction, reloading, reordains, rhapsodic, rhizoidal, rhodamine, rhodamins, rigadoons, rigaudons, roadkills, roadsides, romanised, romanized, sailboard, sangfroid, sarodists, sforzandi, shadowier, shipboard, sideboard, signboard, solarised, solarized, steroidal, sudatoria, swordtail, tailboard, tandooris, thyroidal, tradition, trainload, trapezoid, valorised, valorized, vaporised, vaporized, varicosed, zedoaries. | |
+5 letters: abdicators, accordions, achondrite, adenoviral, adenovirus, adjourning, adjuration, admiration, admonisher, admonitory, adorations, adroitness, adsorption, adsorptive, advisories, airdropped, airproofed, androecium, androgenic, anthropoid, antidromic, antimodern, arachnoids, armadillos, aromatized, arytenoids, asteroidal, audiograms, audiometer, audiometry, auditories, auditorily, auditorium, authorised, authorized, bacteroids, bandoliers, billboards, biodegrade, biohazards, bombardier, bombarding, botryoidal, boundaries, brachiopod, brazilwood, broadening, broadsided, broadsides, broadtails, bromeliads, brominated, caddisworm, carbonized, carcinoids, cardiogram, cardiology, carotenoid, carotinoid, chancroids, chipboards, chromatids, clavichord, clipboards, clostridia, coadjutrix, coadmiring, confirmand, contradict, coordinate, cordiality, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, cowardices, deaconries, deaeration, debonairly, decorating, decoration, decorative, dedicators, dedicatory, defoliator, delineator, democratic, demoralize, denigrator, depilatory, depolarize, depositary, derivation, dermatosis, derogating, derogation, derogative, desiccator, designator, detraction, diachronic, diadromous, diaphorase, diarrhoeas, dichondras, dichromate, dichromats, dicoumarin, dicoumarol, dictionary, dicumarols, dilatorily, disaccords, disapprove, disastrous, discordant, discourage, disfavored, disharmony, distrainor, divinatory, dogmatizer, dominators, dominatrix, dormancies, downstairs, dragooning, drosophila, duplicator, dysphorias, editorials, elucidator, endocardia, endometria, eradicator, estradiols, excoriated, factorized, fairground, federation, fiberboard, fibreboard, floribunda, fluoridate, forecaddie, foredating, foreladies, foreordain, formalised, formalized, formamides, formidable, formidably, fornicated, forwarding, fractioned, fricandoes, furanoside, gadrooning, garrisoned, girandoles, gladiators, glamorised, glamorized, gormandise, gormandize, gradations, graduation, handiworks, harborside, hardihoods, harmonised, harmonized, holidayers, hybridomas, hydrations, icosahedra, ideogramic, ideographs, ideography, idolatries, idolatrous, immoderacy, immoderate, indagators, indicators, indicatory, induration, inordinate, intermodal, internodal, intradoses, inundators, inundatory, iproniazid, ironhanded, irradiator, isografted, jaborandis, jaguarondi, jargonized, jeopardies, jeoparding, jeopardise, jeopardize, judicatory, kaiserdoms, kickboards, linerboard, liquidator, longhaired, madreporic, meditators, meliorated, meridional, microfarad, microwaved, midrashoth, mislabored, moderating, moderation, modularity, monandries, mordancies, mordanting, myocardial, myocardium, narcotized, nonadmirer, noncardiac, nonreading, normalised, normalized, obduracies, orchardist, ordainment, ordinances, ordinarier, ordinaries, ordinarily, ordination, orientated, originated, ostracised, ostracized, outdrawing, outreading, outrivaled, outtrading, outwearied, ovaritides, overdaring, overlading, overplaids, palindrome, panbroiled, paraboloid, paranoidal, parapodial, parapodium, parasitoid, parodistic, patronised, patronized, periodical, peroxidase, picarooned, picofarads, podiatries, podiatrist, pollarding, poniarding, predacious, predations, preholiday, preordains, primordial, prismatoid, prismoidal, proclaimed, prodigally, proplastid, prosodical, pyranoside, pyridoxals, radiations, radicchios, radiogenic, radiograms, radiograph, radiolabel, radiologic, radiolyses, radiolysis, radiolytic, radiometer, radiometry, radiopaque, radiophone, radiophoto, radiosonde, railroaded, railroader, ramrodding, randomized, randomizer, randomizes, rawinsonde, readopting, readorning, reanointed, reboarding, redactions, reobtained, reordained, repudiator, retailored, rhapsodies, rhapsodist, rhapsodize, rheumatoid, rhodamines, rhomboidal, ritardando, sailboards, sangfroids, scorpaenid, shipboards, sideboards, signboards, solidarism, solidarist, solidarity, spheroidal, sporicidal, sudatories, sudatorium, swordtails, syndicator, tailboards, tailorbird, tetraploid, toroidally, traditions, traditores, trainloads, trapezoids, trochoidal, uphoarding, vindicator, warlordism, whiteboard. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 41 44 49 4F 2D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000001 01000100 01001001 01001111 00101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A D I O - |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 0044 0049 004F 002D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523538434915 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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