radar

Forms

1.Often preceded by a descriptive word: a natural (for example, in an animal such as a bat) or human-made detection method based on the analysis of reflected signals other than radio waves, as light waves or sound waves; (countable) an instance of this.
2.A superior ability to detect something; an awareness, an intuition.
- Stanley: Geez, how'd ya know? / Happy: I got radar or something.
- His sensitive radar for hidden alliances keeps him out of trouble.
- It [a goal] came inside 50 minutes and moments later [Edinson] Cavani should have had a 12th. [Paul] Pogba and [Luke] Shaw combined before the left-back's cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.
3.In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
- They were able to find the enemy fleet using radar.
- Each of these aircraft has been upgraded with a new radar and a more powerful engine.
- The Ministry of Defence funded the development of an entirely new radar and improved avionics.

1.To use a radar apparatus (noun senses 1, 1.1, or 2) on (someone or something); to scan (someone or something) with, or as if with, radar.
- I don't think men are born on this planet. I think men are born on the planet Pluto and they have them molecularly disassembled and radar-ed to the earth.
- You want to cross-examine an officer about his competence with regards to radar and the radar he used to ticket you with. He radars you while he's sitting in his patrol vehicle under a bridge.

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Etymology tree

Latin radiusder.

English radio-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.

Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.

French télé-

Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-

Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō

Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)

Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor.

Latin -graphuslbor.

French -graphe