telegramming
Transmitting coded messages
Telegramming is sending a telegram—a message transmitted by telegraph and delivered in written form.
Before telephones and email, telegramming was the fastest way to communicate across distances: She spent the morning telegramming relatives about the death.
The word now appears mainly in historical contexts.
Also spelled telegraphing, which has additional meanings.
Serious sudden danger
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- immediateHappening without delay
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
urgent · expedite · priority · rapid · sos · desperate · haste
Sending written digital communications
- transmittingSending out signals
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- signalingConveying information nonverbally
- wiringInstalled electrical conductors
cabling · conveying · relaying · dispatching · notifying · informing · broadcasting · announcing
emergency
Serious sudden danger
pressing · urgent · expedite · priority · rapid · sos · desperate · haste
messaging
Sending written digital communications
- transmittingSending out signals
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- signalingConveying information nonverbally
wiring · cabling · conveying · relaying · dispatching · notifying · informing · broadcasting · announcing · reporting
concise
Briefly and clearly stated
laconic · curt · clipped · abbreviated · condensed · compact · abrupt · truncated · economical · shorthand
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- wirelessUntethered signal transmission
- vintageQuality from past eras
obsolete · bygone · anachronistic · antique · retro · archaic · wartime · newsroom
telegrammingphoning
Contacting by voice device
calling · conversing · talking · meeting · hand-delivering
telegrammingtexting
Sending typed mobile messages
instant messaging · emailing · tweeting · DMing · video conferencing
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