Definition of "telegraph" []

• A communications system that transmits and receives simple unmodulated electric impulses, especially one in which the transmission and reception stations are directly connected by wires. (noun)
• A message transmitted by telegraph; a telegram. (noun)
• To transmit (a message) by telegraph. (verb-transitive)
• To send or convey a message to (a recipient) by telegraph. (verb-transitive)
• To make known (a feeling or an attitude, for example) by nonverbal means: telegraphed her derision with a smirk. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""Now that's what we call the telegraph trial," said the pupil."
• "The Garcia character runs their train car full of interesting machines, and her hand on the telegraph is so fast and precise it has to be heard to be believed."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat."