noun. A communications system that transmits and receives simple unmodulated electric impulses, especially one in which the transmission and reception stations are directly connected by wires.

noun. A message transmitted by telegraph; a telegram.

intransitive verb. To transmit (a message) by telegraph.

intransitive verb. To send or convey a message to (a recipient) by telegraph.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To make known (a feeling or an attitude, for example) by nonverbal means.

intransitive verb. To make known (an intended action, for example) in advance or unintentionally.

intransitive verb. To send or transmit a telegram.

To transmit or convey, as a communication, speech, intelligence, or order, by a semaphore or telegraph, especially by the electric telegraph.

To send a message by telegraph.

To signal; communicate by signs.

noun. An apparatus for transmitting intelligible messages to a distance.

noun. undefined

noun. An electric telegraph of the needle or pointer class.

noun. A system of transmission for signals in which a bell is sounded and a pointer caused to indicate a message by the compression of air in a reservoir at one end of a long tube, the compression being transmitted to the opposite end of the tube. This system is used in hotels, manufactories, etc., and to transmit steering and steaming directions on shipboard.

noun. In cricket, the score-board upon which numbers indicating the progress of the game are displayed.

noun. In ship-building, an apparatus for transmitting and receiving orders mechanically.

noun. A chute or trough, usually of sheet-steel, by which coal or ore or refuse is carried by gravity from screens or other dressing machinery to the desired point of disposal.

transitive verb. To convey or announce by telegraph.

noun. An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

noun. See under Acoustic.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. undefined

noun. See under Facsimile.

noun. See under Indicator.

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

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

noun. 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.

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

noun. 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.

noun. An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means.

verb. To send a message by telegraph

verb. To give nonverbal signals to another, as with gestures or a change in attitude.

verb. To show one's intended action unintentionally.

verb. send cables, wires, or telegrams

noun. apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)

""Now that's what we call the telegraph trial," said the pupil."

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