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telegraph
has definitions from the field of telecommunications
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[ noun ] apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
Synonyms Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)This boosted local telegraph business and Manchester basked in all the free advertising . Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad_station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town_clerk 's office and drugstore at the Village . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)Accounts were garbled at the telegraph office when they sent old George down to Parkersburg for the news . |
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[ verb ] (telecommunications) send cables, wires, or telegrams
Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)New_Yorkers were kept informed of scores by reporters who telegraphed fifteen to twenty thousand words daily to the metropolitan newspapers . Related terms |
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