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Radio vs Broadcasting - What's the difference?

radio | broadcasting |

As verbs the difference between radio and broadcasting

is that radio is while broadcasting is .

As an adjective broadcasting is

sending in all directions.

As a noun broadcasting is

(business) the business or profession of radio and television.

radio

English

(wikipedia radio)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
  • (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
  • (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
  • (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound recordings via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.

    • Synonyms

    * (device to capture radio signal) tuner, wireless, receiver

    Related terms

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, transitive, ambitransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
    • I think the boat is sinking; we'd better radio''' for help.'' / ''I '''radioed''' him already.'' / '''''Radio''' the coordinates this time.'' / ''OK. I '''radioed them the coordinates.
  • To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
  • * 2002 , Jack Dave, Death Bridge , iUniverse, ISBN 978-0-595-21407-5, page 40:
    • “Could you call them here? I'd like to talk to them. Or if they're out in the field, radio them in.”
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    broadcasting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sending in all directions.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia broadcasting)
  • (business) The business or profession of radio and television.
    • Broadcasting can be a lucrative field, but very few people end up on the air.
  • The act by which something is broadcast.
    • frequent broadcastings of the same old material

    Verb

    (head)
    • This radio station is broadcasting at a frequency of 104Mhz.
    We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader.