te·leg·ra·phy

(tə-lĕg′rə-fē)

Communication by means of the telegraph.

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telegraphy

(tɪˈlɛɡrəfɪ)

1. (Telecommunications) a system of telecommunications involving any process providing reproduction at a distance of written, printed, or pictorial matter. See also facsimile²

2. (Telecommunications) the skill or process of operating a telegraph

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

te•leg•ra•phy

(təˈlɛg rə fi)

n.

the technique or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.

[1785–95]

telegraphy

The invention of the electric telegraph, perfected in 1838 by Morse, saw the beginning of modern electronic communications. In simple terms, it is the transmission of written or printed messages by electrical signals.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	telegraphy - communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire telecom, telecommunication - (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically cable, telegraph, wire - send cables, wires, or telegrams
	2.	telegraphy - apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) telegraph apparatus, setup - equipment designed to serve a specific function

Translations

إبْراق، إرْسال البَرْقِيّات

telegrafie

telegrafi

Telegrafie

télégraphie

távírás

símritun

telegrafia

telegrafering telegrafi

telegrafia

telgraf sistemi

电报学电报术

telegraphy

[tɪˈlegrəfɪ] N → telegrafía f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

telegraphy

n → Telegrafie f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

telegraphy

[tɪˈlɛgrəfɪ] n → telegrafia

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

telegraph

(ˈteligraːf) noun

1. a system of sending messages using either wires and electricity or radio. Send it by telegraph.

2. an instrument for this. Send the message on the telegraph.

verb

1. to send by telegraph. He telegraphed the time of his arrival.

2. to inform by telegraph. He telegraphed us to say when he would arrive.

teˈlegrapher (-ˈle-) , teˈlegraphist (-ˈle-) nouns

a person who operates a telegraph.

teˈlegraphy (-ˈle-) noun

the process, science or skill of sending messages by telegraph.

ˌteleˈgraphic (-ˈgrӕ-) adjective

telegraph pole

a high, wooden pole which supports telegraph wires.

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That seemed a good idea; so the Historian rigged up a high tower in his back yard, and took lessons in wireless telegraphy until he understood it, and then began to call "Princess Dorothy of Oz" by sending messages into the air.

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I'll show you, and I'll show you he's got a brain that counts to five an' knows wireless telegraphy. You just watch."

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He had been educated in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, and in London; and had in one way and another picked up a smattering of anatomy, music, electricity, and telegraphy. Until he was sixteen years of age, he had read nothing but novels and poetry and romantic tales of Scottish heroes.

As he was then in England, his first step was naturally to visit Sir Charles Wheatstone, the best known English expert on telegraphy. Sir Charles had earned his title by many inventions.

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In this he was ably assisted by George Brown, an operator employed by the Wood's System of Wireless Telegraphy. When the Plutonic arrived off Sandy Hook she was boarded by Bannerman from a Government tug, and Emil Gluck was made a prisoner.

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"He is speculating in railways," said Lord Wilmore, "and as he is an expert chemist and physicist, he has invented a new system of telegraphy, which he is seeking to bring to perfection."

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He knew, by the ancient telegraphy of smoke-signalling, the message was being conveyed from village to village and tribe to tribe that a labour-recruiter was on the leeward coast.

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He has had wireless telegraphy installed; he has a telegraph office in the house, half-a-dozen private wires, and they say that he spends an immense amount of money keeping in touch with foreign politics.

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A striking, and unfish-like feature was the apparatus for wireless telegraphy that dangled from the forward cabin--that is to say, under the chin of the fish.

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"The Rockefellers went into mines--iron and coal and copper and lead; into other industrial companies; into street railways, into national, state, and municipal bonds; into steamships and steamboats and telegraphy; into real estate, into skyscrapers and residences and hotels and business blocks; into life insurance, into banking.

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"Multiplex spiritual wireless telegraphy, I'd call it."

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From two to five o'clock a species of labial telegraphy went on throughout the town; and all the inhabitants learned that Mademoiselle Cormon had at last found a husband by letter, and was about to marry the Vicomte de Troisville.

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