telegraph
Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
Noun 2 meanings
Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
Verb 2 meanings
To use a telegraph; to send a message by telegraph.
To clearly communicate to another nonverbally (whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign), and especially unintentionally.
“Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.”
Etymology
Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + -graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).
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TELEGRAPH at a glance
TELEGRAPH has 9 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + L 1 + E 1 + G 2 + R 1 + A 1 + P 3 + H 4) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,074 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with telegraph
All rhymes- PHOTOGRAPH21
- GRAPH11
- PARAGRAPH17
- AUTOGRAPH15
- MONOGRAPH17
- EPITAPH14
- POLYGRAPH20
- PHONOGRAPH21
- CHRONOGRAPH22
- CENOTAPH15
- STAPH10
- LITHOGRAPH19
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