telegraph

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Editorial note

The telegraph cables linked up the technically advanced population centers, and fiber optic cables do the same thing now.

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Quick take

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

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The clearest senses and uses of telegraph gathered in one view.

verb

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

noun

(uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.

noun

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for telegraph.

verb

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

See also: cable, wire, telegraphy

noun

(uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.

See also: cable, wire, telegraphy

noun

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

See also: cable, wire, telegraphy

verb

(figurative) To clearly communicate to another nonverbally, whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign, especially unintentionally.

See also: cable, wire, telegraphy

Example sentences

The telegraph cables linked up the technically advanced population centers, and fiber optic cables do the same thing now.

The open web was an historical anomaly: historically the large information infrastructures have been nearly monopolized (telegraph, phone lines, cable/broadcast).

The telegraph was simultaneously strung right alongside the intercontinental railroad as it was built.

I'm a little surprised no one has figured out a DSL-like technology to use existing telegraph lines for high speed data.

There was an earlier transcontinental telegraph along a different route.

If so, why telegraph our actions if we're actually going to follow through?

Emoticons have been used in the west since the telegraph and kaomojis (emojis) showed up in the 80s and have been known outside of Japan not long after.

If you want to lay a cable, it's going to go pretty much in the same spot as telegraph cables, because people solved that problem 150 years ago.

You're right, the telegraph story doesn't mention it.

Making policy like Berkeley is doing just isn't supported by the science- there are far more risky things in Berkeley, like inhaling secondhand smoke on Telegraph or driving on Ashby.

There was an article not too long ago about how some parts of India still rely on telegraph for any sort of communication and the government's plan to modernize it all.

Other reputable sources would include the Economist, the Times and the Independent, possibly also the Telegraph (it's suffered a decline in quality recently) and although satirical, Private Eye is also well regarded.

Quote examples

In 1839 the world’s first commercial telegraph line using the Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle system was commissioned by the Great Western Railway and built between Paddington and West Drayton, a distance of 13 miles." And later: "British Rail Telecommunications was created by British Rail (BR).

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph".) Beyond me, you already have telegraphed that it's un-PC, and possibly punishable by the full (lethal) force of the state, for someone like a creative/discretionary small business owner (baker, florist, printer, etc.) to demur from your point of view.