Word Meanings - TELEGRAPHICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to TELEGRAPHICAL)

• GRAPHOTYPE
  A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the
• GRAPHOPHONE
  A kind of photograph.
• TELEGRAPHIC
  Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
• GRAPHITIC
  Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite. Graphitic acid , an organic acid, so called because obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called mellitic acid. -- Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of
• GRAPHICNESS; GRAPHICALNESS
  The quality or state of being graphic.
• GRAPHIC; GRAPHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing. 2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing. 3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of
• GRAPHOSCOPE
  An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.
• GRAPHITOID; GRAPHITOIDAL
  Resembling graphite or plumbago.
• GRAPHICALLY
  In a graphic manner; vividly.
• GRAPHISCOPE
  See GRAPHOSCOPE
• GRAPHITE
  Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc.
• GRAPHICS
  The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.
• GRAPHOLOGY
  The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.
• GRAPHOLITE
  Any species of slate suitable to be written on.
• TELEGRAPHICAL
  Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
• HOLOGRAPH
  A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. (more info) "olo`grafos; "o`los whole + gra`fein to write: cf. F. holographe,
• SYNGRAPH
  A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.
• ELLIPTOGRAPH
  See ELLIPSOGRAPH
• CACOGRAPHY
  Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
  See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY
• HYDROGRAPHER
  One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• ANEMOGRAPH
  An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight.
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• OSTEOGRAPHER
  An osteologist.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• MULTIGRAPH
  A combined rotary type-setting and printing machine for office use. The type is transferred semi-automatically by means of keys from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten"
• CINEMATOGRAPH
  A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion
• CRYPTOGRAPHIST
  See CRYPTOGRAPHER
• LOGOGRAPHY
  1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. 2. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C.
• PLETHYSMOGRAPH
  An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb. -- Pleth`ys*mo*graph"ic, a.
• PSALMOGRAPHY
  The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.
• STEREOTYPOGRAPHY
  The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
• PHYTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to phytography.