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单词 airtime
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Definition of airtime in English:

airtime

noun ˈɛːtʌɪmˈɛrˌtaɪm
mass noun
  • 1Time during which a broadcast is being transmitted.

    advertising takes up half the airtime on that radio station
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The project is part of a wider BBC venture called Voices, whose purpose is to give airtime to voices not usually broadcast on the BBC.
    • Of what were now four channels, the BBC had two, funded from the licence fee, and ITV controlled the sale of airtime on the other two.
    • But study after study has shown declining space and airtime devoted to international news.
    • The law requires that television stations provide free airtime to candidates, and ratings for these advertisement blocks rival the World Cup.
    • The group promises to spend seven million dollars to buy airtime for the winning entry.
    • Enterprise stories nearly always find airtime, and the editing process is much less severe.
    • What do you aspire to if the content business is all about filling airtime cheaply or being a screwball night after night?
    • The broadcast networks devoted less airtime to the event than ever before.
    • There was a great deal of airtime to fill and the quality of the reports varied, especially at lunch hour.
    • It's just that it may not always be appropriate that we give someone 20 minutes or half an hour of airtime.
    • Once 15 separate companies offered unique programmes and bartered for airtime and slots.
    • For months and years afterwards, the media has dedicated endless hours of airtime reporting and reflecting on the atrocity.
    • As a yearly ritual we keep sending out spots and the stations keep refusing to sell us airtime.
    • Wasting a precious 10 minutes of airtime on a puny regional news bulletin was not going to happen.
    • And he works the local media, too, bringing players to local radio stations, guaranteeing airtime.
    • It's a big story that gets more airtime and column-inches than almost any other overseas posting.
    • There's too much airtime and not enough news to go around, says creator/writer/director John Morton.
    • Secondly, that there should be some unspecified amount of airtime made available for programmes produced by outside, independent producers.
    • It will cover a large range of popular music genres and artists giving a national platform to the more obscure and less commercial tracks that rarely receive airtime on radio.
    • In the 1999 campaign preseason, the amount of network evening news airtime was only half of that in 1995.
    1. 1.1 The time during which a mobile phone is in use.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some networks may turn over some of their airtime to barter deals, offsetting programming costs.
      • This new player in the mobile phone market twins your paid airtime with free minutes, and all you have to do is listen to some ads.
      • Mobile communications management with best tariffs and business airtime for UK.
      • The company wisely decided not to invest in a network but sells mobile telecom services to customers and buys airtime from other companies.
      • Mr. Wallace says he did not purchase any airtime for this phone in the summer of 2003.
      • Our client is one of the UK's largest independent, five-network Mobile Airtime Distributors.
      • Normally mobile users need to buy credit card-style vouchers bearing an identification number that they key into their handsets to add airtime.
      • It would also be in dire trouble if regulators relaxed constraints on the mobile market about supplying airtime to competitors.
      • This feature is advantageous because it can potentially avoid wasted airtime and improve communication effectiveness.
      • This airtime voucher comes complete with £10 airtime credit for calls and text messaging.
      • This prevents anyone making calls and fraudulently running up airtime bills.
      • Although we had enough airtime on our mobile phones, it was impossible to call for a rescue bus because the area had no mobile phone network.
      • Voucher prices range from £3 for half-an-hour's access to £633 for a full year's worth of airtime.
      • The company will also supply airtime for another company's domestic users from early next year when it ditches another as its mobile provider.
      • You can use the airtime in your bundle to call any UK network you like, at any time you choose!
      • The firm, which provides mobile airtime services to more than half a million mobile phone users, currently employs more than 500 staff.
      • Then came the phone card; prepaid airtime, to be used as needed.
      • Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
  • 2The time a pilot or aircraft spends in flight.

    the operation has seen already 15 sorties flown and more than 150 hours of airtime logged
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today we had the conditions for which Manilla is known, with every pilot getting some airtime and plenty of happy faces tonight.
    • Our freestyle pilots eagerly accepted the extra airtime and continued to slice up the sky with their inventive inverted flight maneuvers.
    • Both of these comps have an option for lower airtime pilots to enter a more suitable (low stress) part of the competition.
    • Over the last year I have clocked up 21 flights and just over 11.5 hours of airtime.
    • New to the job, Schwartz has been logging hours of airtime traveling to the firm's 127 retail stores throughout the country.
    • Phillips doubled his airtime and flew some demo wings.
    • Because of the ease of transportation of paragliding, far more paragliding pilots go abroad, they make those trips more often, and hence more airtime flown abroad.
    • Nice to see the glider getting airtime.
    • Fortunately, the pilot (very low airtime) managed to walk away with cuts and bruises after what must have been a rather scary flight.
    • The Canadian Forces C-17 Globemaster heavy-lift transport logged 48.5 hours of airtime flying the two vehicles to India.
    1. 2.1 (in snowboarding, skiing, etc.) the time a person spends in the air during a jump.
      a thirty-foot jump gave competitors plenty of airtime
      Example sentencesExamples
      • During the trick, the rider uses a combination of their pulling power and shifting bodyweight to lift both wheels off the ground for some self-propelled airtime.
      • With this line of futuristic ski gear you can take the guessing out of things such as jump airtime, speed, and vertical distance traveled on the slopes.
      • Goggle-makers have integrated HUD (heads-up display) that can give the snowboarder or skier information about speed, vertical descent, navigation, jump airtime and distance, thanks to GPS and other sensors.
      • After the extensive airtime of the first 2 jumps, the riders will face a step-up jump into the first berm.
      • Riders negotiate several jumps designed to elicit enough airtime to perform an arsenal of tricks.
 
 

Definition of airtime in US English:

airtime

nounˈerˌtīmˈɛrˌtaɪm
  • 1Time during which a broadcast is being transmitted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For months and years afterwards, the media has dedicated endless hours of airtime reporting and reflecting on the atrocity.
    • And he works the local media, too, bringing players to local radio stations, guaranteeing airtime.
    • As a yearly ritual we keep sending out spots and the stations keep refusing to sell us airtime.
    • It's a big story that gets more airtime and column-inches than almost any other overseas posting.
    • The law requires that television stations provide free airtime to candidates, and ratings for these advertisement blocks rival the World Cup.
    • Of what were now four channels, the BBC had two, funded from the licence fee, and ITV controlled the sale of airtime on the other two.
    • Wasting a precious 10 minutes of airtime on a puny regional news bulletin was not going to happen.
    • But study after study has shown declining space and airtime devoted to international news.
    • The broadcast networks devoted less airtime to the event than ever before.
    • Once 15 separate companies offered unique programmes and bartered for airtime and slots.
    • The group promises to spend seven million dollars to buy airtime for the winning entry.
    • In the 1999 campaign preseason, the amount of network evening news airtime was only half of that in 1995.
    • There was a great deal of airtime to fill and the quality of the reports varied, especially at lunch hour.
    • Enterprise stories nearly always find airtime, and the editing process is much less severe.
    • Secondly, that there should be some unspecified amount of airtime made available for programmes produced by outside, independent producers.
    • What do you aspire to if the content business is all about filling airtime cheaply or being a screwball night after night?
    • It's just that it may not always be appropriate that we give someone 20 minutes or half an hour of airtime.
    • The project is part of a wider BBC venture called Voices, whose purpose is to give airtime to voices not usually broadcast on the BBC.
    • It will cover a large range of popular music genres and artists giving a national platform to the more obscure and less commercial tracks that rarely receive airtime on radio.
    • There's too much airtime and not enough news to go around, says creator/writer/director John Morton.
    1. 1.1 Time during which a mobile phone is in use, including calls made and received.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The company will also supply airtime for another company's domestic users from early next year when it ditches another as its mobile provider.
      • Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
      • This new player in the mobile phone market twins your paid airtime with free minutes, and all you have to do is listen to some ads.
      • Mobile communications management with best tariffs and business airtime for UK.
      • Then came the phone card; prepaid airtime, to be used as needed.
      • Although we had enough airtime on our mobile phones, it was impossible to call for a rescue bus because the area had no mobile phone network.
      • Normally mobile users need to buy credit card-style vouchers bearing an identification number that they key into their handsets to add airtime.
      • It would also be in dire trouble if regulators relaxed constraints on the mobile market about supplying airtime to competitors.
      • The company wisely decided not to invest in a network but sells mobile telecom services to customers and buys airtime from other companies.
      • Some networks may turn over some of their airtime to barter deals, offsetting programming costs.
      • The firm, which provides mobile airtime services to more than half a million mobile phone users, currently employs more than 500 staff.
      • Our client is one of the UK's largest independent, five-network Mobile Airtime Distributors.
      • Voucher prices range from £3 for half-an-hour's access to £633 for a full year's worth of airtime.
      • Mr. Wallace says he did not purchase any airtime for this phone in the summer of 2003.
      • This airtime voucher comes complete with £10 airtime credit for calls and text messaging.
      • You can use the airtime in your bundle to call any UK network you like, at any time you choose!
      • This prevents anyone making calls and fraudulently running up airtime bills.
      • This feature is advantageous because it can potentially avoid wasted airtime and improve communication effectiveness.
  • 2The time a pilot or or aircraft spends in flight.

    a relatively new pilot with just 100 hours of airtime
    Example sentencesExamples
    • New to the job, Schwartz has been logging hours of airtime traveling to the firm's 127 retail stores throughout the country.
    • Today we had the conditions for which Manilla is known, with every pilot getting some airtime and plenty of happy faces tonight.
    • Our freestyle pilots eagerly accepted the extra airtime and continued to slice up the sky with their inventive inverted flight maneuvers.
    • Both of these comps have an option for lower airtime pilots to enter a more suitable (low stress) part of the competition.
    • Over the last year I have clocked up 21 flights and just over 11.5 hours of airtime.
    • The Canadian Forces C-17 Globemaster heavy-lift transport logged 48.5 hours of airtime flying the two vehicles to India.
    • Because of the ease of transportation of paragliding, far more paragliding pilots go abroad, they make those trips more often, and hence more airtime flown abroad.
    • Fortunately, the pilot (very low airtime) managed to walk away with cuts and bruises after what must have been a rather scary flight.
    • Phillips doubled his airtime and flew some demo wings.
    • Nice to see the glider getting airtime.
    1. 2.1 (in snowboarding, skiing, etc.) the time a person spends in the air during a jump.
      a thirty-foot jump gave competitors plenty of airtime
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After the extensive airtime of the first 2 jumps, the riders will face a step-up jump into the first berm.
      • Riders negotiate several jumps designed to elicit enough airtime to perform an arsenal of tricks.
      • Goggle-makers have integrated HUD (heads-up display) that can give the snowboarder or skier information about speed, vertical descent, navigation, jump airtime and distance, thanks to GPS and other sensors.
      • With this line of futuristic ski gear you can take the guessing out of things such as jump airtime, speed, and vertical distance traveled on the slopes.
      • During the trick, the rider uses a combination of their pulling power and shifting bodyweight to lift both wheels off the ground for some self-propelled airtime.
 
 
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