telegraph

English

Etymology

From French télégraphe.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛl.ə.ɡɹæf/, /ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹæf/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːf

Noun

telegraph (plural telegraphs)

(historical) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
  
  The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

Derived terms

Translations

apparatus, or a process, for communicating

Albanian: telegraf (sq) m
Arabic: تِلِغْرَاف‎ m (tiliḡrāf), بَرْقِيَّة‎ f (barqiyya)
Armenian: հեռագիր (hy) (heṙagir), հեռագրություն (hy) (heṙagrutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: teleqraf
Belarusian: тэлегра́ф m (teljehráf)
Bulgarian: телегра́ф m (telegráf)
Catalan: telègraf (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電報 (zh), 电报 (zh) (diànbào), 電報機 (zh), 电报机 (zh) (diànbàojī), 電信 (zh), 电信 (zh) (diànxìn)
Czech: telegraf m
Danish: telegraf c
Dutch: telegraaf (nl) m
Esperanto: telegrafo
Estonian: telegraaf
Finnish: lennätin (fi), sähke (fi)
French: télégraphe (fr) m
Georgian: ტელეგრაფი (ṭelegrapi)
German: Telegraf (de) m
Greek: τηλέγραφος (el) m (tilégrafos)
Gujarati: તારયંત્ર (tāryantra)
Hebrew: טֶלֶגְרַפְיָה‎ (he)
Hindi: टेलीग्राफ़ (ṭelīgrāf), दूरलेख m (dūrlekh), टेलिग्राफ (hi) m (ṭeligrāph)
Hungarian: távíró (hu)
Indonesian: telegrap (id)
Irish: teileagraf m
Italian: telegrafo (it) m
Japanese: 電報 (ja) (でんぽう, denpō), 電信 (ja) (でんしん, denshin)
Kalmyk: соңһгдур (soñhgdur)
Kazakh: телеграф (telegraf)

Korean: 전보 (ko) (jeonbo) (電報 (ko)), 전신 (ko) (jeonsin) (電信 (ko))
Kyrgyz: телеграф (ky) (telegraf)
Latin: tēlegraphum n
Latvian: telegrāfs m
Lithuanian: telegrafas m
Malay: telegraf
Navajo: béésh łichíiʼii bee dahaniʼígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: telegraf
Persian: تلگراف‎ (fa) (telegrâf)
Polish: telegraf (pl) m
Portuguese: telégrafo (pt) m
Romanian: telegraf (ro)
Russian: телегра́ф (ru) m (telegráf)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телѐграф m

Roman: telègraf (sh) m
Slovak: telegraf m
Slovene: telegraf m
Spanish: telégrafo (es)
Swedish: telegraf (sv)
Tajik: телеграф (telegraf)
Thai: โทรเลข (th) (too-rá-lêek)
Turkish: telgraf (tr)
Ukrainian: телегра́ф m (telehráf)
Urdu: ٹیلیگراف‎ (ṭelīgrāf)
Uzbek: telegraf (uz)
Vietnamese: máy điện báo, điện báo (電報)
Yiddish: טעלעגראַף‎ m (telegraf)

Verb

telegraph (third-person singular simple present telegraphs, present participle telegraphing, simple past and past participle telegraphed)

To send a message by telegraph.
To give nonverbal signals to another, as with gestures or a change in attitude.
Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.
To show one's intended action unintentionally.

Translations

to send a message by telegraph

Armenian: հեռագրել (hy) (heṙagrel)
Catalan: telegrafiar (ca)
Finnish: sähköttää
French: télégraphier (fr), dépêcher (fr)
Georgian: ტელეგრაფირება (ṭelegrapireba)
German: telegrafieren (de), depeschieren (de)
Greek: τηλεγραφώ (el) (tilegrafó)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 打電する (daden suru)

Portuguese: telegrafar (pt)
Russian: телеграфировать (ru) (telegrafirovatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телеграфисати

Roman: telegrafisati
Spanish: telegrafiar (es)
Yiddish: טעלעגראַפֿירן‎ (telegrafirn)

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