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单词 telegraph
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Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas.The post and telegraph offices are closed.Trees were uprooted and telegraph lines collapsed.The telegraph poles were made of solid ice.Roads were blocked for days in some places and telegraph lines collapsed under theweight of snow.He hit a telegraph pole with the prop and went straight into a farmhouse.He had been referring to the telegraph poles that lined the road.Thousands of trees and telegraph lines were blown down and snows blocked roads and left many villages cut off.Trains went missing as railway lines were blocked and their whereabouts remained a mystery with phone and telegraph lines down.The home also lost its internet and phone connection when a nearby telegraph pole was hit by an offshoot of the bolt.The Code treats wires and telegraph poles in a slightly different way.In 1859 the entire telegraph system failed as powerful electrical currents swept through the wires.The tank drives over a dead, muddied body and civilians hang from telegraph posts.The ice was so thick that it brought down power, phone and telegraph lines.They walked along the edge of the line, and heard the telegraph wires humming over their heads.Perhaps the most poignant memorial is a bunch of 26 white wooden tulips tied to a telegraph pole.In fact, it was often necessary to lift up the telegraph wires so that the plant could slide beneath them.I managed to duck but in the course of so doing, clipped a telegraph pole.During the 1850s the British began to construct railroad and telegraph systems.You see the swallows lining up on telegraph wires: What?The solar storm in September 1859 turned night into day with telegraph wires bursting into flames.Or you could just shorten rather than remove the side branches (think telegraph poles ) and have a supply of pea sticks for supporting perennials.

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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'

(verb) 
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) 
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'

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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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