telegraphtel‧e‧graph1 /ˈteləɡrɑːf $ -ɡræf/ noun 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINtelegraph1
ExamplesOrigin:
1700-1800 French télégraphe, from télé- ‘tele-’ + -graphe (from Late Latin -graphus ‘written’)EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- Crowds gathered everywhere, in front of banks, the Merchants' Exchange, the telegraph offices.
- He provided a comprehensive network of farm buildings connected, it is said, by a telegraph system.
- In other words, the announcer would kill time until the telegraph details started flowing again.
- Shortly thereafter, the two nations opened postal, telegraph, telephone, and telex links.
WORD SETS► Telephone/Telegraph
Collocationsanswer, nounanswering machine, nounarea code, nounbeeper, nounbleep, verbbleeper, nounbusy, adjectivecable, nouncable, verbcall box, nouncaller, nounCATV, cell, nouncellphone, nouncellular phone, nounchat line, nouncode, nounconference call, nounconferencing, nounconnect, verbcradle, nouncrossed, adjectivedead, adjectivedial, noundial, verbdialling code, noundialling tone, noundial tone, noundirectory enquiries, noundisconnect, verbearpiece, nounECN, nounEntryphone, nounex-directory, adjectiveext., extension, nounfacsimile, nounFreephone, nounGSM, nounhelpline, nounhotline, nounhousephone, nounline, nounlocal call, nounmayday, nounmobile, nounmobile phone, nounMorse code, nounmouthpiece, nounnumber, nounon, prepositionoperator, nounpay phone, nounphone book, nounphone booth, nounphone box, nounphonecard, nounradio-telephone, nounreceiver, nounredial, verbring, verbscrambler, nounsecond-generation, adjectiveSOS, nounswitchboard, nountelecottage, nountelegram, nountelegraph, nountelegraph, verbtelegrapher, nountelegraphist, nountelegraph pole, nountelemarketing, nountelematics, nountelephone, nountelephone, verbtelephone book, nountelephone box, nountelephone call, nountelephone directory, nountelephone exchange, nountelephone number, nountelephone pole, nountelephonist, nounteleprinter, nounteletypewriter, nountelex, nounthird-generation, adjectivethrough, prepositiontoll-free, adverbTouch-Tone phone, nountrace, nountriple play, nountrunk call, noununlisted, adjectiveutility pole, nounvideophone, nounvoice mail, nounWi-Fi, nounwire, nounwire, verbwireless internet, wiretapping, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► electric
1[uncountable] an old-fashioned method of sending messages using radio or electrical signals2[countable] a piece of equipment that receives or sends messages in this way—telegraphic /ˌteləˈɡræfɪk◂/ adjective· The resourceful doctor immediately asked the railway staff to use the new electric telegraph to contact the police at Bishops Road terminus.· One exception was a collaboration with Wilhelm Weber which produced in 1833 the first operating electric telegraph.· But this also occurred with military and imperial funding of the electric telegraph and radio. 4.
NOUN► pole· She felt rigid like a telegraph pole, communicating perfectly, functioning flawlessly, but with no heart, no soul.· Mark then spent a week on the waterfront carefully planing down the telegraph poles to the right shape.· Then follow the line of telegraph poles to the remains of an old railway bridge.· More boulders now barred her passage, and mixed with these, were trees and telegraph poles.· A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane.· They like roosting on telegraph poles.· Another oddity - the telegraph poles on old shots look short.· From the feel of it she thought it could be a telegraph pole.
► wire· Glancing up, I saw a beautiful yellow bird perched on a telegraph wire, looking like a prize long-tailed canary.· Immediately afterwards, she listens enraptured to the almost musical sound of the telegraph wires that only she is capable of hearing.· The rain is sheeting across the horizon like ripped dustbin liners caught on a telegraph wire.· Popularization of news was accelerated in the 1 840s with the introduction of telegraph wire services.· And there was the railway, with its shining lines, telegraph wires and posts, and signals.· And soon the word was crackling over the telegraph wires to all parts of the North.