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# wifi

«wifi» in Mova's school dictionary: **a way of connecting phones, tablets, computers and other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wifi, Wi-Fi; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wifi (also written Wi-Fi) is a way of connecting phones, tablets, computers and other devices to the internet or to each other without wires, using radio waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#m1)

2) In everyday talk, «the wifi» means the wireless internet connection in a place: «The wifi is down». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In computing lessons, wifi is a wireless network that uses a router; pupils learn that data travels as radio signals. In online-safety lessons, children learn not to join unknown public wifi without an adult and to keep the wifi password private. In everyday life, «What's the wifi password?» is a common question. Phrases: «the wifi password», «free wifi», «connect to the wifi», «wifi signal».

### examples

- What's the wifi password? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#x1)
- The wifi isn't working, so I can't watch my show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#x2)
- The cafe has free wifi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#x3)
- My tablet connects to the wifi at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#x4)
- The wifi signal is weak in my bedroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#x5)
- Wifi sends information by radio waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «the wifi», not «a wifi». The official spelling is «Wi-Fi», but «wifi» is common. Pronounced WHY-fy. Wifi is not the same as the internet: wifi connects you to a router, which then connects to the internet.

### In the corpora

- [Leo in Boston blamed the WiFi, but the quiz website showed he had logged in at eight and played games for an hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/4/)
- [«Your WiFi worked fine for the games, buddy.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wifi» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wifi/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.