Tra từ telegraph - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
telegraph pole
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
electric
▪ The resourceful doctor immediately asked the railway staff to use the new electric telegraph to contact the police at Bishops Road terminus.
▪ One exception was a collaboration with Wilhelm Weber which produced in 1833 the first operating electric telegraph.
▪ But this also occurred with military and imperial funding of the electric telegraph and radio. 4.
NOUN
pole
▪ She felt rigid like a telegraph pole, communicating perfectly, functioning flawlessly, but with no heart, no soul.
▪ Mark then spent a week on the waterfront carefully planing down the telegraph poles to the right shape.
▪ Then follow the line of telegraph poles to the remains of an old railway bridge.
▪ More boulders now barred her passage, and mixed with these, were trees and telegraph poles.
▪ A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane.
▪ They like roosting on telegraph poles.
▪ Another oddity - the telegraph poles on old shots look short.
▪ From the feel of it she thought it could be a telegraph pole.
wire
▪ Glancing up, I saw a beautiful yellow bird perched on a telegraph wire, looking like a prize long-tailed canary.
▪ Immediately afterwards, she listens enraptured to the almost musical sound of the telegraph wires that only she is capable of hearing.
▪ The rain is sheeting across the horizon like ripped dustbin liners caught on a telegraph wire.
▪ Popularization of news was accelerated in the 1 840s with the introduction of telegraph wire services.
▪ And there was the railway, with its shining lines, telegraph wires and posts, and signals.
▪ And soon the word was crackling over the telegraph wires to all parts of the North.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Crowds gathered everywhere, in front of banks, the Merchants' Exchange, the telegraph offices.
▪ He provided a comprehensive network of farm buildings connected, it is said, by a telegraph system.
▪ In other words, the announcer would kill time until the telegraph details started flowing again.
▪ Shortly thereafter, the two nations opened postal, telegraph, telephone, and telex links.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Barrett telegraphed the owner to see if he would sell the property.
▪ Hills' main weakness as quarterback is that he telegraphs his passes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By 1844, a Washington newspaper started printing telegraphed news from Maryland.
▪ I telegraphed you before I married and gave you the chance to stop it then.
▪ Its pictures of a divided society, licensed beggars and so on, telegraphed McEwan's concerns a little brashly.
▪ The passage of the train was telegraphed forward from point to point throughout its journey.
▪ They had called people together in New Jersey, prayed, then telegraphed him.
▪ They tried to hit the symbolic spikes with a sledgehammer wired to telegraph the event of the blow, but they failed.

telegraph

I. tel‧e‧graph¹ /ˈteləɡrɑːf, ˈtelɪɡrɑːf $ -ɡræf/ noun
[date : 1700-1800; Language : French; Origin : télégraphe, from télé- 'tele-' + -graphe (from Late Latin -graphus 'written')]
1. [UNCOUNTABLE]
an old-fashioned method of sending messages using radio or electrical signals

2. [COUNTABLE]
a piece of equipment that receives or sends messages in this way

—telegraphic /ˌteləˈɡræfɪk◂, ˌtelɪˈɡræfɪk◂/ adjective

II. telegraph² verb
1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to send a message by telegraph:
　 ▪ Once he knew where we were, Lewis telegraphed every few hours.

2. [TRANSITIVE]
informal to let people know what you intend to do without saying anything:
　 ▪ A slight movement of the hand telegraphed his intention to shoot.