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Meaning telegraph meaning

What does telegraph mean?
Definitions in simple English

telegraph Noun

— A telegraph is an older instrument that was used for sending words and signals to people over far distances. Most people now use the telephone. I sent my mother a message using my telegraph to tell her that I was fine.

telegraph Verb

— To telegraph means to send a message using a telegraph.

telegraph

— noun apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) — verb (= cable, wire) send cables, wires, or telegrams

Synonyms telegraph synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as telegraph?

telegraph English » English

wire cable telegraphy send a telegram telegram message flash wireless ticker teletext telephone telegraphic machine telegraph office tel. sending a telegram send a wire radio telegraph radio posts and telegraph intimate imply fax facsimile electric telegraph communicate cablegram

Topics telegraph topics

What do people use telegraph to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Communication devices

Conjugation telegraph conjugation

How do you conjugate telegraph?

telegraph · verb

Examples telegraph examples

How do I use telegraph in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Do you know who invented the telegraph?
Written words, carrier pigeons, the telegraph, and many other devices carried ideas faster and faster from man to man.
Is the fax a modern form of the telegraph?
Mary received a telegraph from Tom.
Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.
The squirrel climbed all the way to the top of the telegraph pole.
I carelessly ran into the telegraph pole.
Telegraph us when you get to Boston.
Where's the telegraph office?

Movie subtitles

Look, take this note to the telegraph operator in town, and tell him to send it to Major Bailey right away.
You rustle him up and telegraph him that.
Take this to the telegraph office at once.
The telegraph line has been cut.
The telegraph line ain't workin'.
You didn't think they'd have the telegraph wires fixed, did you?
Where's the telegraph office?
Hey, where's the telegraph operator?
I'm looking for the telegraph operator.
A telegraph company.
I recon you'll be back this way with that telegraph line before long.
I do a little trapping now and then. So I was wondering how much it would cost to send my pelts into Omaha by telegraph.
You can't send pelts by telegraph, Berth.
Then the telegraph aint gonna do me any good.
To the telegraph.
Get out of my way, you big telegraph pole.
The telegraph boy at the last station said. there's a lot of telegrams for Mr. Nick Charles.
Flint, I reserved a room by telegraph. Yes, Mr. Flint.
Did you telegraph the parents?
I'll telegraph your guardian.
Now you telegraph him that. Get me out before night, or I'll give the story to Hatton.
The tracks are torn up behind us, and the bridge is burned. The telegraph lines are down.
All you need is a telegraph blank, some scissors and some glue.
I wish to telegraph my friends in Berlin to see that he's taken care of properly.
You'd think you'd telegraph and warn a person.
The news I have for you couldn't be entrusted to the mail or telegraph.
Mrs Henderson said to call her at the telegraph office. We have a telegram.
There's always the telegraph, dumbbell.
Flint, I reserved a room by telegraph.
I was going by the telegraph pole.
Mrs Henderson said to call her at the telegraph office.
Telegraph wires!
I went to send a wire to Whit that I'd found her. but the telegraph office was closed for the siesta.
The telegraph office to wire you.

News and current affairs

The first telegraph line was built by the US Federal Government between Baltimore and Washington in 1842; the Internet, which is so changing today's economy, was developed by the US military.
The telegraph disrupted the postal service.
It is hardly the first disruptive technology to come along: the printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and cassettes all posed challenges to the existing order of their day.
But we do know that, like the late 19th-century boom in trade in staple goods fueled by the iron-hulled ocean-going steamship and the submarine telegraph, it will.
The overthrow of King Louis Phillipe in France in 1848 was carried by the recently introduced telegraph to Germany, igniting revolution.
In May of this year, London's Daily Telegraph began publishing details of MPs' expenses claims.
Technology is the most obvious part: the telecommunications revolution is far more pervasive and spreading more rapidly than the telegraph or telephone did in their time.

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