telegraph
/ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹæf/ noun C1- Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
- 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.
- A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
Plural telegraphs
From the library
There was a telegraph-office at a short distance from the hotel.
Will you not telegraph again?”
Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.
The Daily Telegraph remarked that in the history of crime there had seldom been a tragedy which presented stranger features.
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