telegraph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).
Base: graph
Affixes: tele-
Inflected forms:
form: telegraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telegraphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telegraphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telegraphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telegraphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks.
gloss: The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
The middle-class families celebrated by Kipling, the prolific lowbrow families whose sons officered the army and navy and swarmed over all the waste places of the earth from the Yukon to the Irrawaddy, were dwindling before 1914. The thing that had killed them was the telegraph. In a narrowing world, more and more governed from Whitehall, there was every year less room for individual initiative... By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall. Well-meaning, over-civilized men, in dark suits and black felt hats, with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm, were imposing their constipated view of life on Malaya and Nigeria, Mombasa and Mandalay.
When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.
“Despite the current furore over hacking, which is only a modern term for bugging, eavesdropping, signals intercept, listening-in, tapping, monitoring, there has never been guaranteed privacy since the earliest optical telegraphs to today’s internet,” Packer says. “There never was and never will be privacy.”
gloss: A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a telegraph; to send a message by telegraph.
pos: verb
examples: Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement […]
In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," Sherlock Holmes telegraphs Watson: "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the West of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. […]."
gloss: To clearly communicate to another nonverbally (whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign), and especially unintentionally.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.
He took a jab and telegraphed his punch so loudly that I was able to land a solid right hand to his stomach.
The trip was the latest step in a broader transformation of Mr. Putin that has become apparent in recent weeks. He is telegraphing a shift away from wartime crisis mode back toward the aura of a calm, paternalistic leader shielding Russians from the dangers of the world.
For weeks, Ukrainian officials had telegraphed plans for a planned counterattack in the southern Kherson region, but instead the main focus of this week’s counterattack has been Kharkiv in the north-east, taking everyone, including apparently the Russians, by surprise.
Sergey Radchenko, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, said China appeared to telegraph “a reproach to the Russians, that they’re not acting like a great power, that they are creating instability.”
Related words: heliograph
telegram
teleprinter
Derived words: autotelegraph
bush telegraph
drum telegraph
electric telegraph
electrotelegraph
engine order telegraph
jungle telegraph
magnetic telegraph
marconigraph
moccasin telegraph
mukluk telegraph
needle telegraph
omnigraph
optical telegraph
pantelegraph
phototelegraph
pretelegraph
printing telegraph
radiotelegraph
random telegraph noise
telegraph blank
telegraph block
telegraph blue
telegraph board
telegraph boy
telegraph cable
telegraph carriage
telegraph clerk
telegraph clock
telegraph coach
telegraph cock
telegraph code
telegraph company
telegraph cucumber
telegraph dial
telegraph editor
telegrapheme
telegrapher
telegraphese
telegraph form
Telegraph Hill
telegraph house
telegraphic
telegraphical
telegraph instrument
telegraphist
telegraph key
telegraph-like
telegraphlike
telegraph line
telegraph message
telegraph office
telegraphone
telegraph operator
telegraphoscope
telegraph plant
Telegraph Point
telegraph pole
telegraph post
telegraph reel
telegraph register
telegraph service
telegraph signal
telegraph stamp
telegraph station
telegraph wire
telegraphy
teleiconograph
telepost
teletape
telex
telotype
Torygraph
wireless telegraph
retelegraph
telegraphable
untelegraphed
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