Толковый словарь английского языка - telegraph
Telegraph
telegraph
I. noun Etymology: French télégraphe, from télétele(from Greek tēle-) + -graphe -graph Date: 1794 an apparatus for communication at a distance by coded signals, telegram , II. transitive verb Date: 1805 1. to send or communicate by or as if by ~, to send a telegram to, to send by means of a ~ic order , to make known by signs especially unknowingly and in advance , ~er noun ~ist noun
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a system of or device for transmitting messages or signals to a distance esp. by making and breaking an electrical connection. b (attrib.) used in this system (telegraph pole; telegraph wire). 2 (in full telegraph board) a board displaying scores or other information at a match, race meeting, etc. --v. 1 tr. send a message by telegraph to. 2 tr. send by telegraph. 3 tr. give an advance indication of. 4 intr. make signals (telegraphed to me to come up). Phrases and idioms telegraph key a device for making and breaking the electric circuit of a telegraph system. telegraph plant an E. Indian plant, Desmodium gyrans, whose leaves have a spontaneous jerking motion. Derivatives telegrapher n. Etymology: F t{eacute}l{eacute}graphe (as TELE-, -GRAPH) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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