on air

See also: onair and on-air

English

Alternative forms

• on-air

Prepositional phrase

on air

1. (broadcasting) Transmitting live.

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

2. Smoothly; gracefully.
3. Happily.
4. (bridge, of a trick) Won with a high card though capturing only small cards.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on,‎ air.

Antonyms

• off air

Related terms

• on the air

Translations

transmitting live

• Arabic: عَلَى الْمُبَاشِرِ (ʕalā l-mubāširi)
• Belarusian: у эфі́ры (u efíry)
• Catalan: en directe
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直播 (zh) (zhíbō)

• Dutch: rechtstreeks (nl)
• Finnish: lähetys käynnissä; lähetyksessä; lähettää (fi) (to be on air)
• French: à l’antenne (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: no aire
• Icelandic: þetta er
• Italian: in onda
• Japanese: 放送中の (ほうそうちゅうの, hōsōchū no), オンエアーの (on eā no)
• Portuguese: no ar (pt)
• Russian: в эфи́ре (v efíre), в прямо́м эфи́ре (v prjamóm efíre)
• Spanish: en el aire, en antena
• Ukrainian: в ефі́рі (v efíri)

Anagrams

• Arion, Irano-, noria, oiran, raion