TELEGRAPH

I. noun Etymology: French télégraphe, from télé- tele- (from Greek tēle-) + -graphe -graph Date: 1794 an apparatus for communication at a distance by coded signals, telegram , II. transitive verb Date: 1805 1. to send or communicate by or as if by ~, to send a telegram to, to send by means of a ~ic order , to make known by signs especially unknowingly and in advance , ~er noun ~ist noun