Telegraph

Definitions

1. Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
   uncommon
2. 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.
   historical
3. A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

Equivalents

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العربيةالبرقيةبرقبرقيةتلغراف+ 1 more

Azərbaycan diliteleqraf

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Češtinatelegraf

Dansktelegraf

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Esperantotelegrafo

Suomilennätinsähköttääviestittää

Gaeilgeteileagraf

Galegoaramio

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हिन्दीटेलिग्राफटेलीग्राफ़दूरलेख

Hrvatskibrzopistelegrafтелеграф

Հայերենհեռագիր

Bahasa Indonesiatelegraf

Italianotelegrafo

日本語電信電報電報を送る

ქართულიტელეგრაფი

Қазақ тілітелеграф

ភាសាខ្មែរទូរលេខ

한국어전보전신진보(電報)를 보내다타전(打電)하다+ 1 more

Kurdîtelegraf

Latinatelegraphum

ລາວໂທລະເລກ

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Монголцахилгаан

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မြန်မာကြေးနန်း

Nederlandstelegraaf

Polskitelegraftelegrafowaćzatelegrafować

Portuguêstelegrafartelégrafo

Românătelegraf

Русскийтелеграфтелеграфировать

Српскиbrzopistelegrafтелеграф

Svenskatelegraf

ไทยโทรเลข

Türkçetelgraf

Tiếng Việtđiện báo

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.”

“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.””

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