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telegraph en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹæf/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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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”).

Meanings

(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.
(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.
- “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.” 2015 July 15, Thomas McMullan, “The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy”, in The Guardian:
- 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. 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius/Part I:
- The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.
- 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. 1957 September 14, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 620, from Herapath's Journal:
- 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. 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
telegraphs	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

telegram · teleprinter · heliograph

Synonyms

telegraphy · any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code

Translations (88)

kmr telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ca telègraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · mr टेलिग्राफ (video games: visible or audible cue) · ps ټليګراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ka ტელეგრაფი (chiefly historical: electrical device) · nv béésh łichíiʼii bee dahaniʼígíí (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ru телегра́ф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · mk телеграф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · uz telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cmn 電報機 /电报机 (chiefly historical: electrical device) · hy հեռագրություն (chiefly historical: electrical device) · hi दूरलेख (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ko 전신 (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cmn 電信 /电信 (chiefly historical: electrical device) · hi टेलीग्राफ़ (chiefly historical: electrical device) · xal соңһгдур (chiefly historical: electrical device) · de Telegraph (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ga teileagraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · da telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ja 電信 (chiefly historical: electrical device) · kk телеграф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ar تِلِغْرَاف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · gu તારયંત્ર (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cho tʋli anumpa (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ms telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cs telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · nb telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ug تېلېگراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cy pellebyr (chiefly historical: electrical device) · sq telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · hy հեռագիր (chiefly historical: electrical device) · th โทรเลข (chiefly historical: electrical device) · es telégrafo (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cmn 電報 /电报 (chiefly historical: electrical device) · lt telegrafas (chiefly historical: electrical device) · nl telegraaf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ar بَرْقِيَّة (chiefly historical: electrical device) · sl telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · bn টেলিগ্রাফ (chiefly historical: electrical device) · fr télégraphe (chiefly historical: electrical device) · fi lennätin (chiefly historical: electrical device) · vi điện báo (chiefly historical: electrical device) · km ទូរលេខ (chiefly historical: electrical device) · mn телеграф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · sv telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ja 電報 (chiefly historical: electrical device) · id penyurat kawat (chiefly historical: electrical device) · eo telegrafo (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ps تلګراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · tg телеграф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · la tēlegraphum (chiefly historical: electrical device) · bg телегра́ф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ro telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · he טֶלֶגְרַפְיָה (chiefly historical: electrical device) · mn цахилгаан (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ur ٹیلِیگْراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · lo ໂທລະເລກ (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ur ٹیلی گِراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · pon wailes (chiefly historical: electrical device) · de Telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ky телеграф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · hu távíró (chiefly historical: electrical device) · sk telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · lv telegrāfs (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ur ٹیلی گْراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · sh телѐграф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · be тэлегра́ф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · pl telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · my ကြေးနန်း (chiefly historical: electrical device) · id telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · et telegraaf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cy gwefrebyr (chiefly historical: electrical device) · vi máy điện báo (chiefly historical: electrical device) · it telegrafo (chiefly historical: electrical device) · tr telgraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · tk telegraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · cy telegraff (chiefly historical: electrical device) · az teleqraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · sh telègraf (chiefly historical: electrical device) · fa-ira تِلِگْراف (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ar بَرْق (chiefly historical: electrical device) · el τηλέγραφος (chiefly historical: electrical device) · hi टेलिग्राफ़ (chiefly historical: electrical device) · uk телегра́ф (chiefly historical: electrical device) · mr टेलिग्राफ (chiefly historical: electrical device) · yi טעלעגראַף (chiefly historical: electrical device) · pt telégrafo (chiefly historical: electrical device) · ko 전보 (chiefly historical: electrical device)

wikipedia: Claude Chappe · wikipedia: André François Miot de Mélito

telegraph en · VERB

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹæf/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

Meanings

To use a telegraph; to send a message by telegraph.
- Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement […] 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter 5, in Zuleika Dobson, London: Heinemann, published 1922, page 60:
- In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," Sherlock Holmes telegraphs Watson: "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the West of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. […]." 1957 May 14, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
(figuratively) To clearly communicate to another nonverbally (whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign), and especially unintentionally.
- For weeks, Ukrainian officials had telegraphed plans for a planned counterattack in the southern Kherson region, but instead the main focus of this week’s counterattack has been Kharkiv in the north-east, taking everyone, including apparently the Russians, by surprise. 2022 September 9, Isobel Koshiw, Shaun Walker, “Russia sends reinforcements to Kharkiv to repel Ukraine counterattack”, in The Guardian:
- The trip was the latest step in a broader transformation of Mr. Putin that has become apparent in recent weeks. He is telegraphing a shift away from wartime crisis mode back toward the aura of a calm, paternalistic leader shielding Russians from the dangers of the world. 2022 June 30, Anton Troianovski, “Patient and Confident, Putin Shifts Out of Wartime Crisis Mode”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Sergey Radchenko, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, said China appeared to telegraph “a reproach to the Russians, that they’re not acting like a great power, that they are creating instability.” 2022 September 15, Anton Troianovski, Keith Bradsher, Austin Ramzy, “Chinese Support for Putin’s War Looks More Shaky After Summit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.
- He took a jab and telegraphed his punch so loudly that I was able to land a solid right hand to his stomach. 2007, James A. Rozhon, The Man in the Maze:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
telegraphed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
telegraphed	Tense=Past	lexicographic
telegraphing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
telegraphs	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

Translations (33)

fi sähköttää (to use a telegraph) · hy հեռագրել (to use a telegraph) · fr dépêcher (to use a telegraph) · pt telegrafar (to use a telegraph) · sh telegrafisati (to use a telegraph) · it telegrafare (to use a telegraph) · pl telegrafować (to use a telegraph) · pl zatelegrafować (to use a telegraph) · nl telegraferen (to use a telegraph) · ko 타전(打電)하다 (to use a telegraph) · yi טעלעגראַפֿירן (to use a telegraph) · ja 電報を送る (to use a telegraph) · ka ტელეგრაფირება (to use a telegraph) · ru телеграфировать (to use a telegraph) · ca telegrafiar (to use a telegraph) · ko 진보(電報)를 보내다 (to use a telegraph) · cs telegrafovat (to use a telegraph) · fr télégraphier (to use a telegraph) · eo telegrafi (to use a telegraph) · fi viestittää (to clearly communicate to another nonverbally) · de depeschieren (to use a telegraph) · el τηλεγραφώ (to use a telegraph) · bg телеграфирам (to use a telegraph) · da telegrafere (to use a telegraph) · sv telegrafera (to use a telegraph) · pon wailes (to use a telegraph) · ro telegrafia (to use a telegraph) · de telegraphieren (to use a telegraph) · nb telegrafere (to use a telegraph) · yi דעפּעשירן (to use a telegraph) · hu táviratozik (to use a telegraph) · sh телеграфисати (to use a telegraph) · es telegrafiar (to use a telegraph)

wikipedia: Claude Chappe · wikipedia: André François Miot de Mélito

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telegraph en · VERB

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