telegraph

• n. [通信]電信、電報
• vt.電報を打つ；光を当てる；...に電報を打つ
• vi.

tele-、遠い、-graph、書く。派生語のtelegraph。

telegraph (n.)

1794, "semaphor apparatus" (hence the Telegraph Hill in many cities), literally "that which writes at a distance," from French télégraphe, from télé- "far" (from Greek tele-; see tele-) + -graphe (see -graphy). The signaling device had been invented in France in 1791 by the brothers Chappe, who had called it tachygraphe, literally "that which writes fast," but the better name was suggested to them by French diplomat Comte André-Fran?ois Miot de Mélito (1762-1841). First applied 1797 to an experimental electric telegraph (designed by Dr. Don Francisco Salva at Barcelona); the practical version was developed 1830s by U.S. inventor Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872). Meaning "telegraphic message" is from 1821. Related: Telegraphy.

telegraph (v.)

1805, from telegraph (n.). Figurative meaning "to signal one's intentions" is first attested 1925, originally in boxing. Related: Telegraphed; telegraphing.

1. The Telegraph puts the union in a historical perspective.

テレグラフ紙は、この労働組合を歴史的な角度から報道した。

2.I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph .

テレグラフ紙の毎週のラグビーコラムを代筆します。

3.Mather was film critic on the Daily Telegraph for many years.

マーサーは長年、デイリー?テレグラフ紙の映画評論家を務めてきた。

4.Developments in South Africa receive extensive coverage in The Sunday Telegraph .＜サンデーテレグラフ＞南アフリカの発展を全面的に報道した。

5.He did not bother to punctuate the telegraph message.

彼は電文に句読点を付ける気がない。