telegraph
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹɑːf/
The English word “telegraph” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
- 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.
- A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
verb
- To use a telegraph; to send a message by telegraph.
- To clearly communicate to another nonverbally (whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign), and especially unintentionally.
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”).
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