telegraph
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noun- 1.
(uncommon)Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code
- 2.
(historical)(chiefly historical) 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.
The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.
- 3.
(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
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verb- 1.
To use a telegraph; to send a message by telegraph.
- 2.
(figuratively)(figurative) To clearly communicate to another nonverbally (whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign), and especially unintentionally.
Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.
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French télégraphe, tele-, 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).