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词汇 telegraphing
释义 telegraphing
present participle oftelegraph
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.
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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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Examples of telegraphing


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Decisions can be taken in half an hour, by talks across the table, which settle more than weeks of telegraphing or telephoning.
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We have not accepted the scheme without a considerable amount of telegraphing of questions about it.
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The expense of telegraphing from the seat of war must be enormous.
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All of us who attempt to serve our constituencies adequately are faced by the most appalling bill for postage and telegraphing.
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What was wanted then was an immediate decision, not the delay which coding and ciphering and telegraphing must inevitably produce.
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They know exactly where the cruisers are, and by telegraphing to certain centres they are always able to know what they are doing.
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The fish that was frozen could then be distributed cheaply at a flat rate without the expense of the telephoning and telegraphing that the fresh fish trade demands.
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In other words, they recognised that they would have to make some concessions, so they decided that they would save themselves some trouble by telegraphing the concession in advance.
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A rugby team betraying its line-out plays by using an easily decoded line-out code is "not" telegraphing.
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Telegraphing always refers to a reflexive physical action rather than a protracted or intellectual give-away.
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In prison, she discovers another prisoner who is electrically telegraphing messages.
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For example, a boxer rotating his shoulders to throw a hook would be telegraphing.
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Telegraphing signals the intent to the opponent and increases the likelihood the strike will not be effective.
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Deception measures were also widely used, with diversionary operations across a broad area, and troop movements timed until the last minute, to avoid telegraphing the main points of attack.
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