Talk:radio

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! —Ruakh TALK 13:05, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: May–June 2024

 * On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.

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 “”? 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)