英语词汇“telegraph”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense telegraphs, present participle telegraphing, past tense, past participle telegraphed

1. uncountable noun [oft the NOUN]

Telegraph is a system of sending messages over long distances, either by means of electricity or by radio signals. Telegraph was used more often before the invention of telephones and computers.

Synonyms: cable, wire [informal], telegram, telex More Synonyms of telegraph

2. verb

In the past, to telegraph someone meant to send them a message by telegraph.

Churchill telegraphed an urgent message to Wavell. [VERB noun + to]

'Please,' he telegraphed, 'just leave it alone.'. [VERB with quote]

He telegraphed to me asking me to do something. [VERB to noun]

[Also V n, V]

3. verb

If someone telegraphs something that they are planning or intending to do, they make it obvious, either deliberately or accidentally, that they are going to do it.

He explicitly telegraphed his voting intentions at the next meeting. [VERB noun]

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单词	telegraph
释义	Trends of telegraph View usage for: telegraph (telɪgrɑːf, -græf) Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense telegraphs, present participle telegraphing, past tense, past participle telegraphed 1. uncountable noun [oft the NOUN] Telegraph is a system of sending messages over long distances, either by means of electricity or by radio signals. Telegraph was used more often before the invention of telephones and computers. Synonyms: cable, wire [informal], telegram, telex More Synonyms of telegraph 2. verb In the past, to telegraph someone meant to send them a message by telegraph. Churchill telegraphed an urgent message to Wavell. [VERB noun + to] 'Please,' he telegraphed, 'just leave it alone.'. [VERB with quote] He telegraphed to me asking me to do something. [VERB to noun] [Also V n, V] 3. verb If someone telegraphs something that they are planning or intending to do, they make it obvious, either deliberately or accidentally, that they are going to do it. He explicitly telegraphed his voting intentions at the next meeting. [VERB noun] More Synonyms of telegraph telegraph in British English (ˈtɛlɪˌɡræf, -ˌɡrɑːf) noun 1. a. a device, system, or process by which information can be transmitted over a distance, esp using radio signals or coded electrical signals sent along a transmission line connected to a transmitting and a receiving instrument b. (as modifier) telegraph pole 2. a message transmitted by such a device, system, or process; telegram verb 3. to send a telegram to (a person or place); wire 4. (transitive) to transmit or send by telegraph 5. (transitive) boxing informal to prepare to deliver (a punch) so obviously that one's opponent has ample time to avoid it 6. (transitive) to give advance notice of (anything), esp unintentionally 7. (transitive) Canadian informal to cast (votes) illegally by impersonating registered voters Derived forms telegraphist (tɪˈlɛɡrəfɪst) or telegrapher (teˈlegrapher) noun telegraph in American English (ˈtɛləˌgræf) noun 1. Obsolete any signaling apparatus 2. an apparatus or system that converts a coded message into electric impulses and sends it to a distant receiver: originally, Morse code signals were sent using a key that opened and closed the circuit to activate an electromagnetic sounder, but now teletypewriters, computers, radio and microwave signals, satellites, and lasers are used verb transitive 3. to send (a message) by telegraph 4. to send a telegram to 5. Informal to signal (an intended action, decision, etc.) unintentionally to another, as by a gesture or look verb intransitive 6. to send a telegram Derived forms telegrapher (teˈlegrapher) (təˈlɛgrəfər) noun or teˈlegraphist Word origin Fr télégraphe: see tele- & -graph: orig. used of a semaphore More idioms containing telegraph the bush telegraph Image of telegraph © tantawat, shutterstock Examples of 'telegraph' in a sentence telegraph Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The post and telegraph offices are closed. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Trees were uprooted and telegraph lines collapsed. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The telegraph poles were made of solid ice. Gavin Weightman SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution (2003) Roads were blocked for days in some places and telegraph lines collapsed under theweight of snow. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He hit a telegraph pole with the prop and went straight into a farmhouse. Patrick Bishop FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940 (2003) He had been referring to the telegraph poles that lined the road. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Thousands of trees and telegraph lines were blown down and snows blocked roads and left many villages cut off. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Trains went missing as railway lines were blocked and their whereabouts remained a mystery with phone and telegraph lines down. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The home also lost its internet and phone connection when a nearby telegraph pole was hit by an offshoot of the bolt. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The Code treats wires and telegraph poles in a slightly different way. Times, Sunday Times (2014) In 1859 the entire telegraph system failed as powerful electrical currents swept through the wires. The Sun (2011) The tank drives over a dead, muddied body and civilians hang from telegraph posts. The Sun (2014) The ice was so thick that it brought down power, phone and telegraph lines. Times, Sunday Times (2010) They walked along the edge of the line, and heard the telegraph wires humming over their heads. E. Nesbit The Railway Children (1906) Perhaps the most poignant memorial is a bunch of 26 white wooden tulips tied to a telegraph pole. The Sun (2013) In fact, it was often necessary to lift up the telegraph wires so that the plant could slide beneath them. Jane Brown TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World (2004) I managed to duck but in the course of so doing, clipped a telegraph pole. Times, Sunday Times (2012) During the 1850s the British began to construct railroad and telegraph systems. Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995) You see the swallows lining up on telegraph wires: What? Times, Sunday Times (2010) The solar storm in September 1859 turned night into day with telegraph wires bursting into flames. The Sun (2009) Or you could just shorten rather than remove the side branches (think telegraph poles ) and have a supply of pea sticks for supporting perennials. Times, Sunday Times (2007) In other languages telegraph British English: telegraph NOUN Telegraph is a system of sending messages over long distances, either by means of electricity or by radio signals. American English: telegraph Brazilian Portuguese: telégrafo Chinese: 电报 European Spanish: telégrafo French: télégraphe German: Telegraf Italian: telegrafo Japanese: 電報 Korean: 전신 European Portuguese: telégrafo Latin American Spanish: telégrafo All related terms of 'telegraph' bush telegraph a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats telegraph plant a small tropical Asian leguminous shrub, Desmodium gyrans, having small leaflets that turn in various directions during the day and droop at night telegraph pole A telegraph pole is a tall wooden pole with telephone wires attached to it, connecting several different buildings to the telephone system. telegraph wire a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals moccasin telegraph the transmission of rumour or secret information; the grapevine wireless telegraph to send (a message ) by radiotelegraphy the bush telegraph the way in which information or news can be passed on from person to person in conversation (verb) in the sense of cable Definition (formerly) to send (a message) by telegraph He telegraphed me an urgent message. Synonyms cable wire (informal) I'm wiring you some money. transmit letters begging them to transmit the programme daily telex send The space probe sent back pictures of Triton. (noun) in the sense of cable Definition (formerly) a system by which information could be transmitted over a distance, using electrical signals sent along a cable Synonyms cable wire (informal) I sent him a wire congratulating him. telegram The President received a briefing by telegram. telex radiogram Additional synonyms in the sense of send Definition to cause (a person or thing) to go or be taken or transmitted to another place The space probe sent back pictures of Triton. Synonyms transmit, broadcast, communicate, radio, phone, fax, convey, email, telecast in the sense of telegram Definition (formerly) a message transmitted by telegraph The President received a briefing by telegram. Synonyms cable, wire (informal), telegraph, telex, radiogram in the sense of transmit Definition to broadcast (a radio or television programme) letters begging them to transmit the programme daily Synonyms broadcast, put on the air, televise, relay, send, air, radio, send out, disseminate, beam out, stream, podcast Nearby words of telegraph teetotaller telecommunications telegram telegraph telepathic telepathy telephone Synonyms of 'telegraph' telegraph Explore 'telegraph' in the dictionary Additional synonyms in the sense of wire Definition to send by telegraph I'm wiring you some money. Synonyms send, cable, telegraph in the sense of wire Definition a telegram I sent him a wire congratulating him. Synonyms cable, telegraph, telex, radiogram
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