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Morse

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Morse  (môrs), Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1872.
American painter and inventor. A portraitist whose subjects included Lafayette, he refined (1838) and patented (1854) the telegraph and developed the telegraphic code that bears his name.
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Noun1.MorseMorse - a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
international Morse code, Morse code
code - a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
dit, dot - the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
dah, dash - the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
2.MorseMorse - United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel Morse
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Spanish Morse [mɔːs] n (also: Morse code) → (alfabeto) morse m
French Morse [mɔːs] n (also: Morse code) → morse m
German Morse [mɔːs] n (also: Morse code) → Morsealphabet nt
Italian Morse [mɔːs] n (also: Morse code) → alfabeto Morse
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He beat Morse at billiards, and that's something to brag of, for Morse thinks he knows everything.
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