What's the difference between radio and wireless?

Radio


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
  • (2) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (3) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
  • (4) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
  • (5) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
  • (6) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (7) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (8) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
  • (9) Radio-iron utilization was nearly normal in these patients, only bilateral nephrectomized patients showed a reduced radio-iron utilization.
  • (10) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
  • (11) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
  • (12) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (13) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (14) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
  • (15) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
  • (16) The radio-activity of 99mTc of the entire cardiac blood pool including the large vessels (T), the right ventricle including the right atrium (RV) and the left ventricle (LV) was calculated from the 30 degrees anterior oblique cardiac pool scintigram.
  • (17) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
  • (18) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (19) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
  • (20) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.

Wireless


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two companies have pooled their software development resources to create MeeGo, a free software platform which they reckon will pave the way for the next generation of wireless communications devices.
  • (2) I was born into a Britain where the majority of the population didn't have a telephone, the wireless or indoor plumbing.
  • (3) Among the finance directors on it were: Ken Hanna of Cadbury Schweppes, which was locked in a battle at the European court over its use of a Dublin subsidiary; Richard Lapthorne of Cable & Wireless; and AstraZeneca's Jon Symonds, embroiled in a multibillion pound "transfer pricing" dispute.
  • (4) Essentially, Sonos hooks into your broadband connection, looks for music on any network-connected storage (including computers you nominate) and then makes those files available via its own wireless network of "ZonePlayers", which are either amplifiers (the ZP100) or have a line-out you can hook up to a hi-fi (the ZP80).
  • (5) The excellent strategic fit and complementariness of the Wireless business to News Corp’s operations will provide great opportunities for Wireless’ management, employees and talent,” said Richard Huntingford, executive chairman of Wireless Group.
  • (6) A spokesman said the decision to exit California was not linked to last year's sale of Vodafone's 45% in America's largest mobile phone network, Verizon Wireless , which was the British firm's only stake in an operating company on the American continent.
  • (7) Android devices will also be able to "mirror" themselves wirelessly on a Chromecast-equipped television, much as iOS devices can do with Apple's AirPlay technology.
  • (8) 1933 Comet Battery store is founded by George Hollingbery in Hull, Yorkshire, employing two people who charge batteries for customers' wireless sets.
  • (9) The chip is powered wirelessly from a battery the patient wears in their pocket, so none of the equipment is clearly visible.
  • (10) The iPad is the first mass-market mobile device to use micro-Sim cards, which are smaller than the current range of Sim cards and were designed for small consumer gadgets such as Birmingham-based Lok8u's range of wireless-enabled wrist watches.
  • (11) 9 The first smartphone was IBM's Simon , which debuted at the Wireless World Conference in 1993.
  • (12) Another risk is to Wi-Fi internet access and other communications because higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
  • (13) The wireless LANs that use infrared and radio frequencies are new but promising.
  • (14) The cameras, some of which are operated completely wirelessly, can easily be moved from court to court.
  • (15) If the products are as reliable as they are affordable, this British brand could find itself plugging a gap in the audio market that has puzzled consumers ever since other forms of wireless tech went mainstream years ago.
  • (16) The FCC must act to create strong, enforceable net neutrality rules and apply them equally to both wireless and wireline providers.” But the association stopped short of calling for the internet to be regulated as a utility, a proposal that would give the FCC far greater powers, and which the cable companies are lobbying against fiercely.
  • (17) The company also asked the government how serious it is about wireless charging roads which could top up an electric car without the need to plug in, as mooted by Conservative MP Oliver Letwin.
  • (18) "With the ability to print travel tickets, e-coupons for discounts, and even your Facebook gallery, all can be done wirelessly via smartphones and tablets if your printer has this facility."
  • (19) Read more stories like this: • Using mobile money to buy water and solar power in east Africa • Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless and the making of Africa’s first cashless society • Interactive map: which country has the fewest ATMs?
  • (20) Fitbit was founded in 2007 in California by two men embracing new wireless technology to create something new in the health and fitness industry.