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What (who) is Mayday - definition
Mayday
EMERGENCY PROCEDURE WORD USED INTERNATIONALLY AS A DISTRESS SIGNAL
May Day (call); How to make a Mayday call; MAYDAY; MayDay; Mayday!; Venez m'aider; Declaring emergency; M'aidez; M'aider; Mayday (distress signal); Frederick Stanley Mockford; M'aide; Mayday relay
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.
Mayday
EMERGENCY PROCEDURE WORD USED INTERNATIONALLY AS A DISTRESS SIGNAL
May Day (call); How to make a Mayday call; MAYDAY; MayDay; Mayday!; Venez m'aider; Declaring emergency; M'aidez; M'aider; Mayday (distress signal); Frederick Stanley Mockford; M'aide; Mayday relay
(Maydays)
If someone in a plane or ship sends out a Mayday or a Mayday message, they send out a radio message calling for help because they are in serious difficulty.
He raced to pick up the lifejackets while his stepmother sent out a Mayday call.
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Mayday
EMERGENCY PROCEDURE WORD USED INTERNATIONALLY AS A DISTRESS SIGNAL
May Day (call); How to make a Mayday call; MAYDAY; MayDay; Mayday!; Venez m'aider; Declaring emergency; M'aidez; M'aider; Mayday (distress signal); Frederick Stanley Mockford; M'aide; Mayday relay
¦ noun an international radio distress signal used by ships and aircraft.
Origin
1920s: representing a pronunciation of Fr. m'aider, from venez m'aider 'come and help me'.
Examples of use of Mayday
1. "I heard ‘Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.‘ But there was no response," Fontana said.
2. Everyone will be yelling, ‘Mayday, Mayday.‘ Not a happy situation."
3. He repeated the warning, in the international format drilled into every flight crew: ‘Mayday, Mayday.
4. The tape included one of the pilots shouting "Mayday, Mayday, get out of here" as hijackers stormed his cockpit.
5. Greaves radioed a Mayday warning to Jakarta control.