TELEGRAPH
\tˈɛlɪɡɹˌaf], \tˈɛlɪɡɹˌaf], \t_ˈɛ_l_ɪ_ɡ_ɹ_ˌa_f]\
Definitions of TELEGRAPH
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
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To convey or announce by telegraph.
By Oddity Software
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An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
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To convey or announce by telegraph.
By Noah Webster.
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To convey or announce by telegraph.
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An apparatus for giving signals from a distance, esp. by means of electricity or magnetism.
By Daniel Lyons
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An instrument or system for sending and receiving written messages at a distance by means of electricity.
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To send by means of electricity passing through wires, as a message; to send such a message to.
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To send a message by electric current through wires.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Apparatus for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant places by means of electricity or signals.
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To announce by telegraph.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To send by telegraph; communicate by telegraph.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An apparatus for conveying information to a distance, especially for conveying it very rapidly by electrical currents.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Greek] An apparatus or a process for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points by preconcerted visible signals ; a semaphore;-especially, on apparatus for transmitting intelligence from one station to another, by means of voltaic electricity.
