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📡 Apple wireless streaming 📡 To stream wirelessly
to AirPlay

to AirPlay

1 4.7
To stream audio or video wirelessly from your phone to your TV using Apple's system
  • verb
  • /ˈɛrˌpleɪ/
  • Texting
: transmitir por AirPlay
  • So like you can Airplay your iPhone or your Mac to an Apple TV to, you know, view pictures from your iPhone on your TV or etcetera.

He made an Instagram highlights reel of all their best moments and he airplayed it to the TV and played it on his Instagram.

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Examples

  • He made an Instagram highlights reel of all their best moments and he airplayed it to the TV and played it on his Instagram.

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  • You can easily Airplay games to your TV.

  • And he was like airplaying the pictures on his TV.

  • You can easily AirPlay movies from your iPhone to your Apple TV.

  • He often AirPlays his favorite songs to the wireless speakers in his living room.

  • With just a few taps, you can AirPlay videos directly from your iPad to the big screen.

Synonyms

to cast
vsto AirPlay
  • Texting
2 3.9

To send video or sound from one device to another for playing

is an Apple-specific method for streaming media between devices

Surface Forms

AirPlay infinitive
AirPlayed past
AirPlayed past participle
AirPlaying present participle
AirPlays third person singular

Morphology

AirPlay = AirPlay (opaque) = Air + Play

The verb is a conversion from the branded proper noun, and its technical streaming sense is not recoverable from the component parts alone.

Etymology

AirPlay as a verb comes from the same two parts, Air ('in the air' or 'wireless') and Play ('to play music or video'), so to AirPlay something is simply to send and play it on another device without using wires.