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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
telegram
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
receive
▪ B received A's telegram at 9.40 a.m.
▪ We have received 2, 200 telegrams and 4, 000 letters in response to your Mideast statements....
▪ When Sir Henry received the telegram sent by Holmes' boy, he would think that we had arrived in London.
send
▪ When the islands were first invaded, he sent a telegram to Mrs Thatcher.
▪ He did send a telegram this afternoon.
▪ One thing is clear, we must send him a telegram.
▪ Group Captain Lord Cheshire, who had been unable to be present, had sent a telegram.
▪ He sent home letters and telegrams that give us a glimpse behind the facade of the official portrait: Loved the ladies.
▪ People could send telegrams, telephone each other, and transmit information much more quickly than ever before.
▪ Hertz Lipmann had sent her a telegram.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A telegram reached her on the train on her way home, and he met her at Barnstable.
▪ Bord and Clarke teased in a giddy opening night telegram.
▪ He stood with his cap in his hand until Sarah took the telegram.
▪ His sons received the news by telegram and were apparently unperturbed.
▪ The telegram came on a gray, chilly April day.
▪ The idea was sound, but events of 14 July made it futile, for Bismarck's telegram had the desired effect.
▪ When cottages were on fire at Cosgrove in 1900 the Brigade was informed by telegram.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Telegram

Telegram \Tel"e*gram\, n. [Gr. ? far + -gram.] A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

Note: ``A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.''
--Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
telegram

"telegraphic dispatch," according to Bartlett's 1859 edition a coinage of E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Damned in the cradle by purists who pointed out that the correct formation would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Modern Greek word).\nMay I suggest to such as are not contented with 'Telegraphic Dispatch' the rightly constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as 'telegram.'

[Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London "Times," Oct. 15, 1857]

\nRelated: Telegrammic.
Wiktionary
telegram

n. A message transmitted by telegraph. vb. To send a telegram.

WordNet
telegram

n. a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: wire]

Wikipedia
Telegram (disambiguation)

A telegram is a transmission of written messages by signal, wire or broadcast.

Telegram or Telegramme may also refer to:

Telegram (album)

Telegram is the first full-length and second overall remix album by Icelandic musician Björk. The album is a collection of remixes of several tracks from her album Post, which had all previously appeared as B-sides of the UK versions of the singles off Post, except the "Enjoy" remix which was previously unreleased. The cover was shot by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. All of the songs on Post were remixed, excluding "The Modern Things" and " It's Oh So Quiet". The collection also included one new song entitled "My Spine" which was originally slated to appear on Post but was pushed out by "Enjoy", becoming the B-side to the UK "It's Oh So Quiet" single instead. The album has sold 228,000 copies in US according to SoundScan.

Telegram (EP)

Telegram is the debut EP by Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke. It was released independently on 14 July 2004. Miller-Heidke signed to Sony in 2006 and the song " Space They Cannot Touch" was re-recorded for inclusion on her debut studio album Little Eve (2007).

Telegram (song)

"Telegram" was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in English (the first occasion on which the German entry had not featured at least some lyrics in German) by Silver Convention, a trio at the time consisting of Austrian Penny McLean (born Gertrude Wirschinger), German- American Ramona Wulf (born Ramona Kraft) and American Rhonda Heath.

When Silver Convention entered the Contest in 1977 they were arguably that year's most established and well-known act; they had had a series of major disco hits in Continental Europe, Scandinavia, the UK and the US; " Save Me", " Fly, Robin, Fly", "Get Up and Boogie", "No, No, Joe", "Tiger Baby", and "Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Love" and Penny McLean had also scored several solo hits in her own right in Europe, " Lady Bump", "1, 2, 3, 4, Fire!". "Devil Eyes", "Nobody's Child" and "Dance, Bunny Honey, Dance". All of these were written and produced by the same team as their Eurovision entry; Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze, both of whom would go on to collaborate with other successful Germany based disco acts like Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Boney M., Eruption and Amanda Lear.

The language rule was brought back in the 1977 Contest, four years after it had been dropped in 1973, meaning that each country again had to sing in one of their official languages, in Silver Convention's case German. However, both Germany and Belgium had already selected their respective entries when the rule was reintroduced by the EBU, thus Silver Convention and Belgium's Dream Express were allowed to sing their songs in English.

"Telegram" was performed sixth on the night (following Norway's Anita Skorgan with " Casanova" and preceding Luxembourg's Anne-Marie B. with " Frère Jacques"). At the close of voting, it had received 55 points, placing 8th in a field of 18.

The song is inspired by the disco music popular at the time, with the group singing about their need to send a telegram to a lover to bring him to them. A carefully choreographed dance was performed with the song, with a uniting theme throughout being "connection," ostensibly with the woman and her lover, in which all three ladies linked themselves to one another by touching each other's shoulders, and then hips, as the connection "came back."

"Telegram" only turned out to be a minor commercial success for Silver Convention (#27 Germany), with one notable exception, in Sweden the song reached #4 and became their best-selling single. The song was also released as an extended 12" remix, the 5.50 version was subsequently included on the band's fifth studio album Summer Nights. After a number of revised line-ups Silver Convention disbanded in 1978.

"Telegram" was succeeded as German representative at the 1978 Contest by Ireen Sheer with " Feuer".

Telegram (software)

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging service. Telegram clients exist for both mobile ( Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Ubuntu Touch) and desktop systems ( Windows, OS X, Linux). Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers and files of any type. Telegram also provides end-to-end encrypted messaging, but its optionality and home-brew nature have been contested by security experts and cryptography researchers.

Telegram is supported by the Russian-born entrepreneur Pavel Durov, who is now a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis, travelling the world in self-imposed exile. Its client-side code is open-source software, whereas its server-side code is closed-sourced and proprietary. The service also provides APIs to independent developers.

Usage examples of "telegram".

This is the first mention of a telegram that was to pop up throughout the frantic events of the next few hours and which would be used to perpetrate the swindle by which Hitler justified his aggression to the German people and to the foreign offices of the world.

So far, Harry had kept The Shadow well acquainted with events at the Aureole Mine by sending telegrams which gave specific indications.

May 1857, that a telegram arrived at the fort informing the Resident and Brigadier General Sir James Cameron that Indian army sepoys had revolted in Meerut, killed their officers and British civilians in the town and were marching on Delhi to rally behind the Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, against the British.

I was being systematically depersonalized by the whole educational apparatus at the University of California at Santa Barbara and all I heard from my parents day after day in letters, phone calls and telegrams was that I should transfer to the University of California at Santa Cruz, which they wanted me to do for their own selfish grabby reasons, probably tinged with incest.

He had had a telegram from Gwendolen Erme in answer to his letter offering to fly to her aid.

The other was the telegram that Rufus Fant had received, presumably from Roderick.

He knew that Roderick Talroy was at Five Towers, for he had seen a copy of the telegram that Fant had received in New York.

He had the telegrams received by Roderick Talroy and Fant, the original messages besides.

The people in this village know me, for in response to an urgent telegram, which the whole village subscribed to send me, and which was carried by runner to Naini Tal for transmission, I once came hot-foot from Mokameh Ghat, where I was working, to rid them of a man-eating tiger.

Accordingly, on a hot afternoon in June, he went to the trouble of sending a telegram to Mr Grabble in Amsterdam recommending him to return home at once as his wife was dangerously ill, too ill in fact to be moved from the house.

Have you forgotten that telegram I sent to Gussie Fink-Nottle, steering him away from the sausages and ham?

Chief Inspector Mewer to see her, along with an official of the post office, and they had a long discussion about telegrams.

The next morning she invited Chief Inspector Mewer to see her, along with an official of the post office, and they had a long discussion about telegrams.

Once the national press picked it up, as Vita had hoped they would, telegrams for Betty Raye started pouring in from everywhere.

LADY BIRD JOHNSON But the telegram that absolutely floored Betty Raye was from a Missouri woman, the first movie star she had ever seen, when Anna Lee had taken her to the Elmwood Theater to see Kitty Foyle: GIVE THEM HELL, KID .