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单词 thought-conductor
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thought-conductor
thought-conductor n. now rare.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun]
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telegraph1797
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thought-conductor1889
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set?1891
1853 ‘Introviser’ Phrenol., Psychol., & Pneumatol. vi. 25 Every organ forms a kind of junction, where innumerable thought-conductors meet, and become the powerful promoters of action.
1889 W. F. Butler Charles George Gordon (1899) vii. 188 This lightning thought-conductor [sc. the electric telegraph] had been used..to disseminate lies and foster gambling in stocks or horses.
1957 G. I. C. de Courcy Paganini I. 53 ‘No,’ he replied, ‘I don't like it and look upon it merely as a thought conductor.’
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