[
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 major advantage is its ability to send an automatic Mayday that not only identifies the vessel (by the MMSI) but also gives its location when the radio is connected to a Loran or GPS.
- Houle also suggested to higher authorities that downed aircrews use the term Mayday instead of just talking on the radio.
- Finally, with knee-deep water in the cabin 200 miles from Bermuda, he issued a Mayday call.
- The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am.
- And to bring this hodgepodge of a post round full circle, there exists a book of photos of 9/11 with the title Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Mayday, mayday!
- To send armed forces onboard a civil ship sending out Mayday signals is piracy.
- Each total is almost twice the entire number of anti-capitalists who turned up to the London Mayday event.
- He raced to pick up the lifejackets while his stepmother sent out a Mayday call.
- ‘I turned off my fuel, closed my throttle and made a Mayday call,’ she says.
- Now he could finally understand the co-pilot’s words, a high-pitched chant: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday . Typhoon Season