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Telegraph

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Noun

1. telegraph, telegraphy

apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)

Verb

2. cable, telegraph, wire

send cables, wires, or telegrams

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Telegraph

see synonyms of telegraph
noun
1. 
a. 
a device, system, or process by which information can be transmitted over a distance, esp using radio signals or coded electrical signals sent along a transmission line connected to a transmitting and a receiving instrument
b. 
(as modifier)
telegraph pole
2. 
a message transmitted by such a device, system, or process; telegram
verb
3. 
to send a telegram to (a person or place); wire
4. (transitive)
to transmit or send by telegraph
5. (transitive) boxing informal
to prepare to deliver (a punch) so obviously that one's opponent has ample time to avoid it
6. (transitive)
to give advance notice of (anything), esp unintentionally
7. (transitive) Canadian informal
to cast (votes) illegally by impersonating registered voters

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Telegraph

see synonyms of telegraph
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
verb transitive
3. 
to send (a message) by telegraph
4. 
to send a telegram to
5.  Informal
to signal (an intended action, decision, etc.) unintentionally to another, as by a gesture or look
verb intransitive
6. 
to send a telegram

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Telegraph

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n.
1. A communications system that transmits and receives simple unmodulated electric impulses, especially one in which the transmission and reception stations are directly connected by wires.
2. A message transmitted by telegraph; a telegram.
v. tel·e·graphed, tel·e·graph·ing, tel·e·graphs
v.tr.
1. To transmit (a message) by telegraph.
2. To send or convey a message to (a recipient) by telegraph.
3.
a. To make known (a feeling or an attitude, for example) by nonverbal means: telegraphed her derision with a smirk.
b. To make known (an intended action, for example) in advance or unintentionally: By massing troops on the border, the enemy telegraphed its intended invasion to the target country.
v.intr.
To send or transmit a telegram.

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