Word Meanings - TELEGRAPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
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- COMMUNICATIVENESS
The quality of being communicative. Norris. - TELEGRAPHIC
Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence. - INTELLIGENCER
One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke. - COMMUNICATIVE
Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift. - COMMUNICATION
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of - TELEGRAPHONE
An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - TELEGRAPHER
One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist. - TELEGRAPHY
The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy. - COMMUNICATE
1. To share in common; to participate in. To thousands that communicate our loss. B. Jonson 2. To impart; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there - TELEGRAPH PLANT
An East Indian tick trefoil , whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes. - TELEGRAPHOSCOPE
An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, - TELEGRAPHIST
One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher. - COMMUNICATOR
One who communicates. Boyle. - 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. - INTELLIGENCE
1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. 3. Information - TELEGRAPHICAL
Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. - COMMUNICATORY
Imparting knowledge or information. Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow. - PANTELEGRAPH
See TELEGRAPH - INTERCOMMUNICATION
Mutual communication. Owen. - SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
Imparting or communicating by its own powers. - RADIOTELEGRAPHY
Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912. - INCOMMUNICATING
Having no communion or intercourse with each other. Sir M. Hale. - INCOMMUNICATIVE
Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. The Chinese . . . an incommunicative - INTERCOMMUNICATE
To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication. - RADIOTELEGRAPHIC
Of or pertaining to radiotelegraphy; employing, or used or employed in, radiotelegraphy. - LIGHT SIGNALS
A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.