Morse code
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4.1
- noun
- /mɔrs koʊd/
- Specialized
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código Morse
- I was a little vain about my ability to send and receive Morse code over long distances.
- Morse code message
- communicate in Morse code
- send Morse code
So that then suggested to us we can use the eye movements to create a form of Morse code signalling from the participant to the experimenter.
- So that then suggested to us we can use the eye movements to create a form of Morse code signalling from the participant to the experimenter.
- They said, if you're in a lucid dream and consciousness has returned, can you, can you communicate with me like with your eyeballs through like a Morse code?
- I looked up the Morse code on your glasses.
- They have AVR television viewing experience in your hotel, but you can only watch The Big Bang Theory with Morse code narration as the audio track.
- And so if you put something say like Morse code on this atom on this half, and this half is going to, it's going to replicate that.
- Remember, there's a fist, you know, they're using Morse code and sending things.
Examples
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We touched, we lightly tapped, as persistently as if we were drumming out Morse code messages to each other.
Fiction book (1999) -
I tried voice and Morse code.
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Anybody here know Morse code?
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At least he knows the Morse code.
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The encrypted message was sent in Morse code.
Academic text (2003) -
I think he's sending a message in Morse code.
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I'm expecting a set of exact coordinates via Morse code transmission.
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In Boy Scouts, I had earned a merit badge for "Communications," which required competence in semaphore and Morse code.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the blackout, we used Morse code to communicate by tapping out dots and dashes.
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She quickly learned to read Morse code so she could decode the messages sent by her grandfather.
Synonyms
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A system using dots and dashes to send letters and numbers
A way to show letters and numbers using dots and dashes
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a compositional name + noun compound: 'Morse' specifies the particular dot-and-dash signaling system and 'code' denotes a system of symbols, so the overall meaning is directly a type of code. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift—knowing both constituents allows a learner to infer it denotes the specific encoding system associated with Morse (dots and dashes).
Etymology
Morse code was created for the telegraph by Samuel Morse. Operators sent messages with short and long signals that looked like dots and dashes, so today the name means a system for sending 'letters' and 'numbers' using those simple signals.