OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15171

telegraph

/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
telégrafo
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.
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine te…
The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 15172

telegraph

/ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
telegrafiar
To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.
In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," Sherlock Holmes telegraphs Watson: "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the West of England in connection with Bosco…
Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement […]
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