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RfV for the newly-added verb sense "To order someone home or back to HQ, by radio or some other method." — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 19:02, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- I'd say this is a specific example of a more general sense "to contact someone by radio". Whether or not this more general sense is itself part of the existing "to send a message by radio" I'm not sure either way. Thryduulf (talk) 21:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- Perhaps a creative google search would give us a clue. Maybe this is from something like "to radio someone back (locative adjunct)". If might be found in war-type fiction. DCDuring TALK 22:28, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- I found citations for the sense. I think it is a particular construction "[radio] NP 'locative adjunct'". I don't know how general the locative adjunct can be. "Back" and "in" are examples.
- Sense 1 includes 4 different grammatical possibilities, now illustrated by a single four-part usex. Should they be 4 separate defs? I think "ambitransitive" saves contributor time at the expense of user understanding. No learner's dictionary (indeed no dictionary AFAICT) uses that label. DCDuring TALK 23:42, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
RFV passed. Thanks for your cites and other work, DCDuring! —RuakhTALK 13:05, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
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- (countable) On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.
- 2018 February 6, Jonathan Amos, “Elon Musk's huge Falcon Heavy rocket set for launch”, in BBC News[1], London, United Kingdom: BBC, retrieved 2018-02-07:
- David Bowie's classic hit Space Oddity will be looping on the radio as the car is hurled into an elliptical orbit that stretches out to Mars' orbit around the Sun.
This could be OK, but I have personally never heard of it, and I am not 100% convinced by the sole example. Hard to search for. Anyone familiar with this sense? Mihia (talk) 23:02, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hm, just after posting this, it occurred to me to search "play a CD on the radio", and actually there ARE a handful of hits in reference to car audio systems, all American as far as I can see, so perhaps we can forget this, except possibly adding a "US" label if no one has heard of it in the UK. Mihia (talk) 23:11, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- I can't recall having heard it, but these kinds of loose senses are pretty common in casual speech so it's definitely plausible. Theknightwho (talk) 06:05, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- This feels trivially citeable, and definitely not US-only. Just look for a few articles about car radio theft - here's an example using "radio" and "stereo" interchangeably, here's a British example. Smurrayinchester (talk) 06:53, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- WHAT is the world coming to, when people no longer know what a "radio" is? Mihia (talk) 21:12, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- Can we define this sense as “Short for car radio.”? The oddly specifically utilitarian definition of the latter could be improved by generalizing it so that it covers the “on-board entertainment system” sense – which by itself unduly excludes other uses. --Lambiam 16:20, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- RFV-passed. Mihia (talk) 14:54, 5 June 2024 (UTC)