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Telegraph
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code. uncommon
"This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks."
- 2 apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) wordnet
- 3 The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables. historical
"The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT."
- 4 A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
- 1 To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.
"Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement […]"
- 2 send cables, wires, or telegrams wordnet
- 3 To clearly communicate to another nonverbally, whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign, especially unintentionally. figuratively
"Her frown telegraphed her displeasure."
Etymology
Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).
Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).
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