telegraph
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definition
verb
I must go and telegraph Mom
send (someone) a message by telegraph.
noun
news came from the outside world by telegraph
a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
translation of 'telegraph'
noun
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example
The encirclement of the world by 'telegraph' by the early 1870s represented yet another revolution in communications.
He may 'telegraph' from his country much news which is unexceptionable.
There were now 50,000 miles of 'telegraph' wire in the theatre of war, making coverage more extensive and immediate.
It was communication by 'telegraph' that brought one of the biggest revolutions in weather forecasting techniques.
I must go and 'telegraph' Mom
You can operate an optical 'telegraph' as used in the Napoleonic wars, crank up second world war field telephones and learn to read Morse and semaphore.
Make sure that your upper body doesn't make any unnecessary movements that will 'telegraph' your intentions to your opponent.
I must go and 'telegraph' Mama
The mathematical description of heat flow linked his work on thermodynamics, the cooling of the Earth and even the flow of electrical signals through 'telegraph' wires.
I told her that I would 'telegraph' her with my reply as soon as possible.
she would rush off to 'telegraph' news to her magazine
news came from the outside world by 'telegraph'
In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a 'telegraph' with rotating magnetized needles.
How do we not 'telegraph' to the rest of the world that we are vulnerable in some way?
In 1832, the same year he became professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York, he drafted his first ideas for an electric 'telegraph' .
By the 1840s, the clamor for intelligence by brokers and other investors had already resulted in a 'telegraph' operating between New York and Philadelphia.
The sender would tap out messages in Morse code, which would be transmitted down the 'telegraph' wire to a human decoder translating them back into ordinary characters.
The train can only proceed when the line ahead is clear, as indicated back to the previous staff station by 'telegraph' .
Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting 'telegraph' wire.
Then a 'telegraph' operator tapped out this one-word message: DONE.
For about a hundred years the principal method of long distance communication was by 'telegraph' .
Miraculously, even the 'telegraph' wires along which Morse code messages once pulsed still dangle in the breeze.
You never want to 'telegraph' that you underestimate in any way, shape or form your opponent's strength.
Six months after the arrival of the telegraph, all southern provinces were linked by 'telegraph' lines.
On 11 May 1874 the residents of Callington celebrated the connection by 'telegraph' with Adelaide.
The 'telegraph' wires had broken as well, according to the couple that had stopped by.
Once the codebook was established and disseminated, a 'telegraph' could serve as such a device.
During the 1870s much of East Asia, including Australia, was linked by 'telegraph' , though the trans-Pacific cable was not complete until 1902.
Trading stores were looted and 'telegraph' wires cut.
she would rush off to 'telegraph' news to her magazine
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