radio-controlled
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- adjective
- /ˈreɪdioʊ kənˈtroʊld/
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- Dyson's kids, Danny and Blythe, are playing in the halls with a radio-controlled off-road truck.
- a radio-controlled car
- a radio-controlled airplane
- a radio-controlled toy
Examples
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I fly radio-controlled electric gliders (up to 5m span).
Blog text (23) -
In 1934, as teenagers, the Goods became the first amateurs to achieve radio-controlled flight.
Academic text (2004) -
But I was thinking we could get a radio-controlled airplane and fly the line across.
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A radio-controlled, unmanned target plane is being sent out over the ocean.
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I'm gonna get a radio-controlled aeroplane for Christmas.
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I also fly radio-controlled helicopters and airplanes.
Blog text (30) -
Weary bombers, such as the radio-controlled B-17G Flying Fortress, were used with small success as flying bombs during World War II.
Academic text (2003) -
A radio-controlled model of Quetzalcoatlus northropi, digitally superimposed over a picture of the sun.
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The experimenter, Maynard Hill, sent an 11-pound radio-controlled model airplane on a 38-hour journey from Canada to Ireland.
Academic text (2004) -
He built a radio-controlled car that could be driven from a distance.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
radio-controlled = radio + controlled (transparent) = radio + control + ed
The meaning is directly composed from 'radio' + 'controlled' (control + -ed), indicating 'controlled by radio signals', which is plainly inferable from the parts.
Etymology
Radio-controlled starts with radio, from a Latin word radius meaning 'ray', which became the name for invisible signals that travel like rays, and ends with controlled, from 'control' meaning 'to guide'. So a radio-controlled device is one you 'guide' from far away using radio 'rays'.