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Definition of telegraph
1 : an apparatus for communication at a distance by coded signals; especially : an apparatus, system, or process for communication at a distance by electric transmission over wire
2 : telegram
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Examples of telegraph in a Sentence
I sent the message by telegraph.
Recent Examples of telegraph from the Web
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The rapid jaunt of Morse code dots and dashes Nick Yokanovich tapped out on his telegraph sounder carried across the field on the sluggish summer wind like an echo from another time.
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Morse gave up painting soon thereafter and went on to his second career: helping to invent the telegraph and Morse code.
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The State Opening of Parliament took place Wednesday, and Prince Charles attended with his mother in his father’s place, per The Telegraph.
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The press played up the unrest to score points and sell papers, and the telegraph, coming into its own then, spread that message through the nation at breakneck speed.
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The telegraph was being supplanted by the telephone.
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Under fire from Spanish riflemen, the party was able to cut only two of the three telegraph lines and had to return to their ships.
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While serving on the USS Nashville in the Caribbean, Seaman Sundquist participated in an attempt in May 1898 to cut underwater telegraph cables linking Cuba with Spain, which were located off-shore near the Cuban city of Cienfuegos.
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While the telegraph had been around in idea and rudimentary form, Morse devised a way to use electricity for sending a series of codes signaling letters of the alphabet.
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Origin and Etymology of telegraph
French télégraphe, from télé- tele- (from Greek tēle-) + -graphe -graph
telegraph
Definition of telegraph
transitive verb
1a : to send or communicate by or as if by telegraphb : to send a telegram toc : to send by means of a telegraphic order
2 : to make known by signs especially unknowingly and in advance
Examples of telegraph in a Sentence
He telegraphed a message to her.
Please telegraph when you get there.
Please telegraph me when you get there.
The look on her face telegraphed bad news.
He lost the boxing match because he was telegraphing his punches.
First Known Use of telegraph
1805
TELEGRAPH Defined for English Language Learners
telegraph
playDefinition of telegraph for English Language Learners
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: an old-fashioned system of sending messages over long distances by using wires and electrical signals
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: a device used for sending or receiving messages by telegraph
telegraph
Definition of telegraph for English Language Learners
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: to send (a message) by telegraph
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: to send a telegram to (someone)
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: to make (something that you are about to do or say) obvious or apparent by the way you move, look, etc.
TELEGRAPH Defined for Kids
Definition of telegraph for Students
: an electric device or system for sending messages by a code over connecting wires
Definition of telegraph for Students
telegraphed
;telegraphing
1 : to send by code over connecting wires
2 : to send a telegram to
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See words that rhyme with telegraph Spanish Central: Translation of telegraph Nglish: Translation of telegraph for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of telegraph for Arabic speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about telegraph
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