different between telegraph vs facsimile

English

Etymology

From French télégraphe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?l.?.??æf/, /?t?l.?.??æf/
• Rhymes: -??f
• Hyphenation: tel?e?graph

Noun

telegraph (plural telegraphs)

1. (historical) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

2. (video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

Derived terms

• bush telegraph
• engine order telegraph
• jungle telegraph
• telegraphic

Related terms

• telegram

Translations

Verb

telegraph (third-person singular simple present telegraphs, present participle telegraphing, simple past and past participle telegraphed)

1. To send a message by telegraph.
2. To give nonverbal signals to another, as with gestures or a change in attitude.

   Her frown telegraphed her displeasure.

3. To show one's intended action unintentionally.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæk?s?m.?.li/

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:

     To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

• (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
• (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Translations

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations