0 (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.
2 to communicate a message or impression to someone, or make it clear what you are going to do, often by the way you act:
3 a method of sending and receiving messages by electric signals that was used in the past, or the equipment used to do this
4 in the past, the method of sending or receiving messages by electrical or radio signals
One story says Mrs. Faulkner telegraphed Lincoln and he promptly overruled the order.
U. S. Senators Charles Culberson and Joseph Weldon Bailey telegraphed Secretary of War William Howard Taft a day after the shootings.
The first telegraphed messages were transmitted in 1916 through an underground copper wire.
With special operations in dangerous countries, if you telegraph what you're going to do, it might cause a lot of deaths.
For months he had telegraphed his inclination to veto the plan.
The museum's president telegraphed with his bike tours the idea that the museum was a friendly as well as an erudite place.
His eyes downcast and tone sullen, he telegraphed in every way possible that he didn't want to discuss the defeat.
Changes in global and national telegraph rates were an important factor in the function and articulation of the information order.
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