telegraph : Idioms & Phrases

• a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone.

Webster 1913

• a telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the sending station.

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• . See Telegraph.

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• a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire.

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• a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

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• a telegraph in which the signals are the deflections of a magnetic needle, as in the trans-Atlantic system.

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• a telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See Telegraph.

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• a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.

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• an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station.

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• an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs.

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• a telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore.

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• telegraph for signaling by flashes of reflected sunlight.

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• a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water.

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• a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean.

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• noun a form to use when sending a telegram
  

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• noun key consisting of a lever that sends a telegraph signal when it is depressed and the circuit is closed
  

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• noun the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals
  telephone wire; telegraph line; telephone line.
  

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• noun someone who transmits messages by telegraph
  telegrapher; telegraphist.
  

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• noun erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine
  Desmodium gyrans; semaphore plant; Codariocalyx motorius; Desmodium motorium.
  

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• (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a semaphore.

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• noun tall pole supporting telephone wires
  telegraph pole; telephone pole.
  

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• noun tall pole supporting telephone wires
  telegraph pole; telephone pole.
  

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• noun the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals
  telephone wire; telegraph line; telephone line.
  

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• noun the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code)
  wireless telegraphy; radiotelegraph; radiotelegraphy.
  

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