telegrams
Morse code messages
Telegrams are messages sent by telegraph—an electrical communication system that transmits coded signals over wires.
Before telephones and the internet, telegrams were the fastest way to send urgent news across distances.
The word now evokes a bygone era: She received a telegram announcing her father's death.
Because senders paid by the word, telegram style was famously terse.
Thin metallic conductor
- transmissionSending of information
- cablegramWired overseas message
- dispatchSend with speed
- encodeConvert to cipher
decode · operator · relay · signal · cable · radiotelegraphy · telex · teleprinter
Of a prim era
- Western UnionRemittance service company
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
twentieth-century · Morse · antique · nostalgia · analog · pneumatic · archive · obsolete
Excessive quickness
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- immediateHappening without delay
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- expediteSpeed up a process
crisis · swift · priority · deadline · rush · vital · critical · death notice
Cease all motion
- succinctExpressed with minimal words
- conciseBriefly and clearly stated
- terseBrief to bluntness
- pithyConcise and forceful
laconic · curt · clipped · abbreviated · economical · compressed · word count · truncated
wire
Thin metallic conductor
- transmissionSending of information
- cablegramWired overseas message
- dispatchSend with speed
encode · decode · operator · relay · signal · cable · radiotelegraphy · telex · teleprinter · shortwave
Victorian
Of a prim era
- Western UnionRemittance service company
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
nineteenth-century · twentieth-century · Morse · antique · nostalgia · analog · pneumatic · archive · obsolete · vintage
haste
Excessive quickness
expedite · crisis · swift · priority · deadline · rush · vital · critical · death notice · birth announcement
stop
Cease all motion
pithy · laconic · curt · clipped · abbreviated · economical · compressed · word count · truncated · elliptical
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- obsolete thingsdodo, dodo bird, passenger pigeon, dinosaurs, mammoth
- written documentsnewspaper, diary, journal, manuscript, scroll
- outdated thingsflip phones, VHS tapes, fax machines, dial-up, typewriters
- messagesmessage, email, text message, text, instant message
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
telegramsphone calls
Auditory telecommunication sessions
voice calls · video calls · instant messages · emails · verbal communication
telegramscasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
small talk · chitchat · idle chatter · disappearing messages
- singing telegramsPerformed songs as gifts
- telegraph cablesWires transmitting electrical messages
- telegraph polesPosts supporting communication lines
- telegraph wiresCables carrying coded messages
- telegraph linesElectrical message transmission cables
- telegraph operatorTransmits coded wire messages
telegram, telegraph, telegraphic, telegrammed, telegraphy, telegrapher