Definitions for telegraph

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telegraph tel·e·graph

Spelling: [tel-i-graf, -grahf]

IPA: /ˈtɛl ɪˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/

Telegraph is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in telegraph (aeeghlprt).

Definitions for telegraph

noun

1. an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
2. Nautical. an apparatus, usually mechanical, for transmitting and receiving orders between the bridge of a ship and the engine room or some other part of the engineering department.
3. a telegraphic message.

verb (used with object)

1. to transmit or send (a message) by telegraph.
2. to send a message to (a person) by telegraph.
3. Informal. to divulge or indicate unwittingly (one's intention, next offensive move, etc.), as to an opponent or to an audience; broadcast:

verb (used without object)

1. to send a message by telegraph.

Origin of telegraph

French télégraphe (1792) a kind of manual signaling device; see tele-¹, -graph

Examples for telegraph

As far away from post offices and telegraph offices as possible.

“Unlike Turkey or Egypt, we have no art-historical tradition,” he told The telegraph in 2002.

Yates, as he lay on the ground, wrote rapidly on the telegraph blank.

“In the long term, I am more worried about biology,” he told The telegraph.

Mr Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The telegraph.

Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The telegraph.

The telegraph reports that he is fluent in Swahili and a keen zoologist.

The young man looked at the world from a telegraph point of view.

"Write, telegraph—pray let me know somehow," answered Hardy.

They have seen the telegraph line, as can be seen by signs they make, but they cannot speak English.