On-the-air Definition

adverb
Alternative spelling of on the air. (recording or broadcasting)
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In the process of recording or broadcasting; a radio station that is transmitting a program; or a particular source of modulation, such as a specific microphone, that is connected.

In a few minutes, we'll be on the air giving a live broadcast.
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Being broadcast.

The popular television series was on the air for ten years before it finally ended.
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On-the-air Sentence Examples

  • It looked suspiciously like the warehouse district near the Annapolis port, and she smelled the sea on the air.

  • Fred took on the air of a learned professor as he explained.

  • Carmen changed filters and turned on the air conditioner for the summer.

  • She smelled the ocean on the air and was surprised to see the strange stone cottage perched in the middle of a field hedged by a stone wall.

  • The amount of watery vapour in the air passing through a stoma has no effect upon it, as the surfaces of the guard cells abutting on the air chamber are strongly cuticularized, and therefore impermeable.

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