I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
telegraph pole
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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The resourceful doctor immediately asked the railway staff to use the new electric telegraph to contact the police at Bishops Road terminus.
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One exception was a collaboration with Wilhelm Weber which produced in 1833 the first operating electric telegraph .
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But this also occurred with military and imperial funding of the electric telegraph and radio. 4.
■ NOUN
pole
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She felt rigid like a telegraph pole , communicating perfectly, functioning flawlessly, but with no heart, no soul.
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Mark then spent a week on the waterfront carefully planing down the telegraph poles to the right shape.
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Then follow the line of telegraph poles to the remains of an old railway bridge.
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More boulders now barred her passage, and mixed with these, were trees and telegraph poles .
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A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane.
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They like roosting on telegraph poles .
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Another oddity - the telegraph poles on old shots look short.
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From the feel of it she thought it could be a telegraph pole .
wire
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Glancing up, I saw a beautiful yellow bird perched on a telegraph wire , looking like a prize long-tailed canary.
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Immediately afterwards, she listens enraptured to the almost musical sound of the telegraph wires that only she is capable of hearing.
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The rain is sheeting across the horizon like ripped dustbin liners caught on a telegraph wire .
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Popularization of news was accelerated in the 1 840s with the introduction of telegraph wire services.
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And there was the railway, with its shining lines, telegraph wires and posts, and signals.
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And soon the word was crackling over the telegraph wires to all parts of the North.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Crowds gathered everywhere, in front of banks, the Merchants' Exchange, the telegraph offices.
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He provided a comprehensive network of farm buildings connected, it is said, by a telegraph system.
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In other words, the announcer would kill time until the telegraph details started flowing again.
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Shortly thereafter, the two nations opened postal, telegraph , telephone, and telex links.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barrett telegraphed the owner to see if he would sell the property.
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Hills' main weakness as quarterback is that he telegraphs his passes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1844, a Washington newspaper started printing telegraphed news from Maryland.
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I telegraphed you before I married and gave you the chance to stop it then.
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Its pictures of a divided society, licensed beggars and so on, telegraphed McEwan's concerns a little brashly.
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The passage of the train was telegraphed forward from point to point throughout its journey.
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They had called people together in New Jersey, prayed, then telegraphed him.
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They tried to hit the symbolic spikes with a sledgehammer wired to telegraph the event of the blow, but they failed.