telegraph

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(especially in the past) a method of sending and receiving messages by electrical or radio signals, or the special equipment used for this purpose:

The news came by telegraph.

to send a message to someone using the telegraph system:

The story was immediately telegraphed to New York.

He managed to telegraph the men's wives, who arrived to find their husbands nearly dead.

to communicate a message or impression to someone, or make it clear what you are going to do, often by the way you act:

The bank has been telegraphing the move to investors for months.

Their poses in the pictures telegraph dignity.

a method of sending and receiving messages by electric signals that was used in the past, or the equipment used to do this

in the past, the method of sending or receiving messages by electrical or radio signals