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telegraph Definition

tele·graph (tel′ə graf′)

noun

  1. Obsolete any signaling apparatus
  2. an apparatus or system that converts a coded message into electric impulses and sends it to a distant receiver: originally, Morse code signals were sent using a key that opened and closed the circuit to activate an electromagnetic sounder, but now teletypewriters, computers, radio and microwave signals, satellites, and lasers are used

Etymology: Fr télégraphe: see tele- & -graph: orig. used of a semaphore

transitive verb

  1. to send (a message) by telegraph
  2. to send a telegram to
  3. Informal to signal (an intended action, decision, etc.) unintentionally to another, as by a gesture or look

intransitive verb

to send a telegram

telegraph Related Forms
te·leg′·ra·pher (tə leg′rə fər) noun or te·leg′·ra·phist
telegraph Synonyms

telegraph

n.

Morse telegraph, electric telegraph, wireless, radio telegraph, wireless telegraph, transmitter; see also communications, radio 2.

telegraph Synonyms

telegraph

v.

wire, send a wire, send a cable, send a radiogram, communicate by telegram, flash*, wire*, file*; see also communicate 2.

telegraph Telecom Definition
From the Greek tele, meaning far off, and graphos, meaning written. See also Hellenologophobia. 1. An apparatus or process for communicating information over a distance by coded signals. Simple telegraphs employ smoke signals, drums, mirrors, flags, fires, lanterns, and mechanical semaphores. 2. The electric telegraph was invented by Samuel F.B. Morse (1791
telegraph Usage Examples

Object

  • pole: Across the entrance is a gate made of sleepers and telegraph poles to stop the debris.
  • message: On her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 she telegraphed a special message to her 'beloved people ' all over the world.
  • wire: These routes had no low bridges, telegraph wires or tight corners.

Converse of object

  • invent: In order to continue searching for the term who invented the telegraph, visiting Connected Earth's website is likely to help you.
  • use: In 1872 the Eyam Felons ' Association caught a criminal by using the telegraph.

Adjective modifier

  • electric: The case with the ordinary electric telegraph is exactly the same.
  • bush: Later in the bush telegraph Sophie told cameras " I can't be friends with someone like that.
  • daily: Daily telegraph: 14 An article with an author.
  • first: Explore the history of communications from the first telegraph to the broadband age.
  • harmonic: He had developed the " harmonic telegraph " which could send more than one message at a time over a single telegraph wire.

Modifies a noun

  • pole: Just to the north of point C a telegraph pole is marked on the plan a little to the west of the boundary line.
  • .co.uk: Read daily sport news from the UK at telegraph.co.uk.
  • wire: Beetle Ian had over 60 on his telegraph wire on the morning of the 24th.
  • cable: Link to Europe An underwater telegraph cable was successfully laid under the English Channel.
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  • office: Witney is the nearest money order & telegraph office.

Noun used with modifier

  • roadside: Also seen at several inland locations, perched on roadside telegraph wires.
  • wireless: The same year saw the wireless telegraph being used to save a ship in distress in the North Sea.
  • towpath: Then just trust the usual ' towpath telegraph ' to exaggerate the difficulties.

Preposition: in

  • advance: All the plot turns, and indeed most of the jokes, are telegraphed long in advance.
telegraph Quotes

  The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

I feel pretty glum and devote myself to reviewing. There is Joyce's Finnegans Wake. I try very hard indeed to understand that book but fail completely. It is almost impossible to decipher, and when one or two lines of understanding emerge like telegraph poles above a flood, theyareat once countered byother polesgoing in the opposite direction.

—Nicolson, Sir Harold