[
UK
/mˈeɪdeɪ/
]
[ US /ˈmeɪdeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈmeɪdeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)
How To Use Mayday In A Sentence
- The instructor passes a question about Maydays onto the commodore, as she has more experience of them than him.
- It was the forerunner to the sos call which in turn was superseded, in the days of voice radio, by the now standard Mayday call. LET NOT THE DEEP
- The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat.
- Sorry, been a shinny a£&e in CID for some years now, however, always loved Public Order events like this (mayday protests). G20 - The best press photos - April Fools Day « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen.
- Some claim Mayday is the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. December « 2008 « Bill Ayers
- Mayday/safety features include having the vehicle automatically place a call to a 911 operator when an air bag triggers.
- At five past two this afternoon Wednesday Swansea Coastguard received a Mayday from a French sailing vessel reporting that they had dismasted and were now drifting two miles North of Lynton in North Devon. Sailing Vessel dismasted and drifting off Lynton, North Devon
- Malin Head Radio broadcast a Mayday relay to all shipping.
- Imaginary dana reminds us that this fellow is one and the same guy who organized the fiasco otherwise known as Mayday for Marriage last October. Bill Gates turns his back on LGBT equality after religious supremacists threaten boycott