Definition of Telegraph

Telegraph

An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

To convey or announce by telegraph.

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Telegraph Quotations

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
Vidal Sassoon

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
Christian Lous Lange

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
Emily Greene Balch

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Lawrence Halprin

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
John Mortimer

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Alan Turing

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.
Elisha Gray

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Telegraph Translations

telegraph in Afrikaans is telegrafeer
telegraph in Dutch is overseinen, telegraferen
telegraph in German is telegraphieren, Telegraf
telegraph in Swedish is telegraf

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