Telegraph

What do we mean by 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. intransitive verb

To send or convey a message to (a recipient) by telegraph. intransitive verb

To make known (a feeling or an attitude, for example) by nonverbal means. intransitive verb

To make known (an intended action, for example) in advance or unintentionally. intransitive verb

To send or transmit a telegram. intransitive verb

In cricket, the score-board upon which numbers indicating the progress of the game are displayed. noun

In ship-building, an apparatus for transmitting and receiving orders mechanically. noun

A chute or trough, usually of sheet-steel, by which coal or ore or refuse is carried by gravity from screens or other dressing machinery to the desired point of disposal. noun

To transmit or convey, as a communication, speech, intelligence, or order, by a semaphore or telegraph, especially by the electric telegraph.

To send a message by telegraph.

To signal; communicate by signs.

An apparatus for transmitting intelligible messages to a distance. noun

An electric telegraph of the needle or pointer class. noun

A system of transmission for signals in which a bell is sounded and a pointer caused to indicate a message by the compression of air in a reservoir at one end of a long tube, the compression being transmitted to the opposite end of the tube. This system is used in hotels, manufactories, etc., and to transmit steering and steaming directions on shipboard. noun

To convey or announce by telegraph. transitive verb

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. noun

An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means.

A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

In terms of video games, to telegraph is to give advance notice of. A good example is Punch Out. Most fighters do a small animation that shows they are about to attack. Urban Dictionary

To signal one's actions or intentions, especially unintentionally Urban Dictionary

A feeling of immense pleasure with a girl with indirect contact Urban Dictionary

To flail about in a strange way as an excuse to make sexual contact with someone near you. Urban Dictionary

To convey an intentional, conscious or unconscious message, usually through facial expressions or body language, but can also include written or verbal comments. Can also be refered to and used as "Telegraph" or "Telegraphed." Urban Dictionary

A news company, for retards, by retards. Urban Dictionary

Verb to describe having ones expenses or financial status 'reviewed'. Taken after the The Daily Telegraph newspaper that published leaked papers showing how certain British MPs have claimed expenses inappropriately. Urban Dictionary

The Coconut Telegraph is the Tropic's version of The Grapevine. Think of it like two halved coconut shells connected by a string. Urban Dictionary

An Australian term for information being spread by word of mouth. (A bit like "heard it on the grapevine). Urban Dictionary

A traffic intersection that, because of a lack of a protected turn and the flow of traffic, only lets one vehicle through per cycle of lights. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to telegraph:
telegraph, telegram, telegraphy, telegrams, telegraphs, melograph, telegraf, telegrafo.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word telegraph:
telegraphy, morse, telephone, spectator, cable, mail, operator, guardian, poles, herald, wireless, wire, correspondent, messages, columnist, newspaper, sunday, stamps, postal, daily, expenses, reviewer, observer, lines, editor, praised, communications, pole, message, invented, mirror, column, evening, office, post, reporter, communication, reported, electrical, express, describing.

Words that rhyme with telegraph:
staff, half, laugh, graph, chaff, calf, gaffe, behalf, epitaph, monograph, gaff, giraffe, photograph, autograph, paragraph, naff, carafe, graf, gaf, raff, phonograph, staph, raphe, lithograph, riffraff, raf, draff, taff, choreograph, polygraph, falstaff, mimeograph, haff, laff, flagstaff, sclaff, allograph, graff, spectrograph, chief of staff, hectograph, belly laugh, paff, rhaphe, bar graph, skaff, scaff, wagstaff, golden calf, msafp, schaff, pfaff, time and a half, overstaff, unitaf, shaff, general staff, graef, understaff, echograph, mass spectrograph, taffe, metcalf, sir john falstaff, box calf, office staff, second half, braff, research staff, assaf, first half, maintenance staff, service staff, bickerstaff, sound spectrograph, sales staff, headquarters staff, x-ray photograph, last half, security staff, biggerstaff, graeff, grandstaff, longstaff, fraph, grindstaff, graefe, sielaff, hackstaff, intergraph, pendergraph, pinkstaff, reprograph, yaffe.

Adjectives that are often used to describe telegraph:
electric, wireless, magnetic, first, postal, submarine, daily, electromagnetic, atlantic, harmonic, military, electrical, optical, automatic, practical, multiple, international, ordinary, better, commercial, musical, aerial, successful, printing, chemical, spiritual, transatlantic, vine, conservative, underground, visual, engineroom, chronicle, autographic, nearest, mechanical, mysterious, portable, wire, marine, bamboo, acoustic, vocal, order, sympathetic, semaphoric, outspeeding, efficient, continental, improved, catholic, signal, gazette, electrochemical, owned, distance, homely, instantaneous, line, practicable, consultative, post, interstate.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective telegraph:
poles, wires, office, wire, lines, boy, operator, posts, pole, post, line, form, offices, station, communication, cable, operators, telephone, messenger, peon, key, days, clerk, forms, company, message, boys, board, cables, workers, clerks, teleprinter, stations, receiver, extension, resolution, employees, era, laying, transmitters, instruments, installations, papers, jee, expert, instrument, receiving, routes.

Words that sound like telegraph:
telegraph, telegrapher, telegraphy, telegraphs, telegraphed, stylograph, holograph, xylograph, telegram, telegraphic, tachograph, telegraphing, telegraph key, diagraph, allograph, dilligaf, stenograph, topograph, trigraph, telega, tomograph, typograph, holography, holographs, polygraph, calligraph, trigger off, autograph, telugu, digraph, telegrams, delacroix, tallgrass, autograf, autographe, telegraph pole, tile roof, tall grass.