Word Meanings - TELEGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
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- CONSTRUCT
together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order; - COMMUNICATIVENESS
The quality of being communicative. Norris. - CONSTRUCTIVELY
In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent. - 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 - CONSTRUCTIVE
1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. - SUBMARINE
A submarine plant or animal. - CONSTRUCTION
The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a - CONSTRUCTIONIST
One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist. - 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 - CONSTRUCTIONAL
Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation. - CONSTRUCTOR
A constructer. - CONSTRUCTIVENESS
The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters. (more info) 1. Tendency or ability to form or construct. - COMMUNICATOR
One who communicates. Boyle. - CONSTRUCTURE
That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric. - SCIENCE
1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all - COMMUNICATORY
Imparting knowledge or information. Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow. - CONSTRUCTER
One who, or that which, constructs or frames. - INTERCOMMUNICATION
Mutual communication. Owen. - SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
Imparting or communicating by its own powers. - PRESCIENCE
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards. - RADIOTELEGRAPHY
Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912. - OMNISCIENCE
The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden. - INCOMMUNICATING
Having no communion or intercourse with each other. Sir M. Hale. - RECONSTRUCT
To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay. - UNSCIENCE
Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer. - 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 - CONSCIENCE
consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power, - CONSCIENCED
Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak. - MISCONSTRUCTION
Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet. - INTERCOMMUNICATE
To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication. - NESCIENCE
Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.