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radiogram

English

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WOTD – 13 February 2024

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Etymology 1

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From radio- (prefix denoting radioactivity or radiation) +‎ -gram (suffix denoting something drawn, written, or otherwise recorded).[1][2]

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radiogram (plural radiograms)

  1. Synonym of radiograph (“an image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than ordinary light; especially an X-ray photograph”)
    • 1928 July, C. S. Klinkert, “An Unusual Dental Anomaly”, in B. W. Carr, editor, United States Veterans’ Bureau Medical Bulletin, volume IV, number VII, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 626:
      Following my usual custom, with some difficulty I removed the radiogram from the mount and found in the upper one half of the left border a radiopaque shadow in the area previously covered by the film mount frame. […] This indicated that another radiogram should be made, which revealed an impacted third molar in disto-oblique position.
    • 1937 January 2, H. H. Moll, “Chest Deformities in Asthma”, in Squire Sprigge, Egbert [Coleby] Morland, editors, The Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health, and News, volume CCXXXII, part I, London: The Lancet Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:
      The method I use is to outline the contour of the chest wall on an X-ray film and to transpose it on a sheet of paper. If the radiogram has been taken correctly, the outline of the chest will be clearly visible on the film, the edge of the ribs contrasting quite sharply against the shadow of less density given by soft parts covering the thorax.
    • 1956, A[rthur] W[orth] Ham, W. R. Harris, “Repair and Transplantation of Bone”, in Geoffrey H[oward] Bourne, editor, The Biochemistry and Physiology of Bone, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 494:
      [F]ractures in animals, which were on a diet that deranged their calcium and phosphorus metabolism healed normally as judged from histological sections. But when radiograms were taken of these fractures they revealed little callus and hence the radiograms would normally be interpreted as indicating non-union; that is, that a bony callus had not formed. […] Accordingly, radiograms do not always give an accurate indication of whether or not osteogenesis has occurred.
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Etymology 2

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Probably either:[1][3]

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radiogram (plural radiograms)

  1. (telegraphy, historical) Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”)
    • 1912 August 13, “[Laws and Regulations] An Act to Regulate Radio-communication, Approved August 13th, 1912”, in The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, New York, N.Y.: Wireless Press, published 1917, →OCLC, page 362:
      Sec. 7. That a person, company, or corporation within the jurisdiction of the United States shall not knowingly utter or transmit, or cause to be uttered or transmitted, any false or fraudulent distress signal or call or false or fraudulent signal, call, or other radiogram of any kind.
    • 1946, Walter C[ampbell] Short, “Statement by Major General Walter C. Short of Events and Conditions Leading Up to the Japanese Attack, December 7, 1941”, in Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27: A Concurrent Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Events and Circumstances Relating thereto: Part 24: Proceedings of Roberts Commission […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1778:
      If the War Department at that time had considered it necessary to alert the Hawaiian Department against air and ground attack, it undoubtedly would have so directed instead of sending a long radiogram outlining the various steps that should be taken in connection with sabotage and subversive activities.
    • 1963, Linwood S. Howeth, “Birth of Science of Radio and Development of Usable Components”, in History of Communications-electronics in the United States Navy, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
      On 3 June, 1898, Lord Kelvin visited [Guglielmo] Marconi's Alum Bay station, on the Isle of Wight, and sent from there the first paid radiograms.
    • 2010, William H. Bartsch, “Part Three: ‘You are Not Forgotten Men’”, in Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941–1942, College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
      But in his February 12 radiogram Brett had also ordered Barnes to send two pursuit squadrons to Darwin, one for local protection and the other to provide escort for a convoy to Koepang and to provide cover for its unloading, then to remain at Koepang.
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Etymology 3

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A SABA radiogram.

Either:[1][4]

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radiogram (plural radiograms)

  1. (radio, historical) Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver”)
    • 1935, Michael Egan, The Dominant Sex: A Play in Three Acts, London: Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 86:
      She comes in with a worried, puzzled expression. Then her spirits suddenly revive; she switches on the radiogram and dances gaily for her own amusement.
    • 1947 January–February, “South African Royal Train”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
      Inter-train radio communication facilities between the Royal and pilot trains are provided, as well as train to land station contact, and the lounges throughout the train have radiograms. The King's study will have a radio receiving set of wide range.
    • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, Auckland: RHNZ Vintage, →ISBN, page 96:
      He opens the plywood door that conceals the radiogram. The record is already on the turntable: Miles Davis letting loose.
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “radiogram, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ “radiogram, n.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  3. ^ “radiogram, n.2”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  4. ^ “radiogram, n.3”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

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Indonesian

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Noun

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radiogram (first-person possessive radiogramku, second-person possessive radiogrammu, third-person possessive radiogramnya)

  1. radiogram

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Etymology

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From radio- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /raˈdjɔ.ɡram/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɡram
  • Syllabification: ra‧dio‧gram

Noun

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radiogram m inan

  1. radiogram, radiograph
  2. radiogram, radiotelegram
    Synonym: radiotelegram

Declension

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Declension of radiogram
singular plural
nominative radiogram radiogramy
genitive radiogramu radiogramów
dative radiogramowi radiogramom
accusative radiogram radiogramy
instrumental radiogramem radiogramami
locative radiogramie radiogramach
vocative radiogramie radiogramy

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