telegraph

Meaning

Noun

1. Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
2. 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.
3. A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

Verb

1. To use a telegraph.
2. To clearly communicate to another nonverbally, whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign, especially unintentionally.

Synonyms

wire

cable

telegraphy

send a telegram

telegram

message

flash

send a wire

telegraph office

telephone

☎️

teletext

ticker

wireless

🛜

sending a telegram

radio

📻

posts and telegraph

radio telegraph

electric telegraph

tel.

telegraphic machine

cablegram

communicate

facsimile

fax

📠

imply

intimate

Hyphenated as

tel‧e‧graph

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/

Etymology

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”).