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词汇 telegraph
释义 telegraph
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈtel.ɪ.ɡrɑːf/ us /ˈtel.ə.ɡræf/
(especially in the past) a method of sending and receiving messages by electrical or radio signals, or the special equipment used for this purpose: (尤指过去的)电报;电报机
The news came by telegraph.这个消息是由电报传来的。
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telegraph
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈtel.ɪ.ɡrɑːf/ us /ˈtel.ə.ɡræf/

telegraphverb[T] (SEND BY TELEGRAPH)


to send a message to someone using the telegraph system:
The story was immediately telegraphed to New York.
He managed to telegraph the men's wives, who arrived to find their husbands nearly dead.
One story says Mrs. Faulkner telegraphed Lincoln and he promptly overruled the order.
U. S. Senators Charles Culberson and Joseph Weldon Bailey telegraphed Secretary of War William Howard Taft a day after the shootings.
The first telegraphed messages were transmitted in 1916 through an underground copper wire.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Communications - general words
anti-satellite
app
autodial
autodialler
bar
hack
multimode
multipath
noise
non-computer
non-network
patch
patch someone through
satellite
silent
watch party
webchat
Zoom bomb
Zoombomber
Zoombombing

telegraphverb[T] (SEND MESSAGE)


to communicate a message or impression to someone, or make it clear what you are going to do, often by the way you act:
The bank has been telegraphing the move to investors for months.
Their poses in the pictures telegraph dignity.
With special operations in dangerous countries, if you telegraph what you're going to do, it might cause a lot of deaths.
For months he had telegraphed his inclination to veto the plan.
The museum's president telegraphed with his bike tours the idea that the museum was a friendly as well as an erudite place.
His eyes downcast and tone sullen, he telegraphed in every way possible that he didn't want to discuss the defeat.
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acquaint someone/yourself with something
annunciation
apprise someone of something
avowedly
awaken someone to something
bear
break
pass
proclaim
propagate
propagation
propagative
public
put something before someone
put something out
reported
ring
self-proclaimed
smoke signal
stake a claimidiom

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telegraph | American Dictionary


telegraph
noun[ U ]
us/ˈtel·əˌɡræf/
a method of sending and receiving messages by electric signals that was used in the past, or the equipment used to do this

telegraph


verb[ T ]us/ˈtel·əˌɡræf/(alsowire)
Reporters telegraphed details of the trial to their editors.

telegraph | Business English


telegraph
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈtelɪɡrɑːf/us
COMMUNICATIONS
in the past, the method of sending or receiving messages by electrical or radio signals

telegraph


verb[ I or T ]
They had telegraphed to say that they had arrived.

Examples of telegraph


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Changes in global and national telegraph rates were an important factor in the function and articulation of the information order.
The symmetry reductions thus obtained are compared with analogous results for the continuous telegraph equation.
Any two telegraph companies could consolidate with shareholder approval.
The telegraph, moreover, falls short not only as regards its promise of speed in transmission; it is notoriously spare in detail.
Once it got overlaid on the map's magic carpet, the line on paper effaced memory of the telegraph line.
On the one hand, this newly tamed force could power new technologies such as the telegraph and dynamo.
The convention organizers offered many "free privileges" including free telephone and telegraph service, local transportation, museum admissions and opportunities for food and drink.
The creation of revolutionary broadsheets was spurred by lower telegraph, post, and press rates, and proscription often led to wider circulation.
It is remarkable that so many symmetries are shared by the continuous and discrete versions of the telegraph equation.
Officials unveiled new monuments, parks, libraries, schools, public lighting, telegraph and telephone lines, pavilions and municipal palaces.
However, even if a quarter of the capacity of the multiplex telegraph was to be used, substantial reductions in tariffs across the board were imperative.
With the minor exception of the telegraph, the first electronic means of communication involved the spoken rather than the written word.
For example, nationalisation of the telegraph system (in 1870) and the telephone system (in 1912) may have stymied efficiency by removing the pressure of competition.
This paper traces various wind paths, from natural casuarinas to telegraph wires.
Beginning with telegraph lines, the construction of connective systems began to become decoupled from massive civil engineering projects.
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Collocations withtelegraph


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electric telegraph
It was later made more universally accurate by the electric telegraph and then by radio time signals.
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telegraph cable
That was a telegraph cable, and could only be used for telegraph purposes.
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telegraph company
Both the telegraph company and the military authorities dispose of these personal messages as speedily as the difficulties of the situation permit.
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