Telegraph

Quick meaning: Telegraph is a noun meaning (uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.

Meaning

(uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.

More Meanings

1. (video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
2. To use a telegraph; to send a message by telegraph.
3. (figurative) To clearly communicate to another nonverbally (whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign), and especially unintentionally.
4. (chiefly historical) 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.

Example Sentences

The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.

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 […]

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.

The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

Word Forms

• telegraphs
• telegraphing
• telegraphed

Synonyms for telegraph

Depending on context, synonyms include telegraphy, cable, wire.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include telegraphy, cable, wire, telegraphic, telegram, telex.

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