teletype
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈtɛləˌtaɪp/
- Archaic
:
teletipo
- "That Arkansas twister is looking better," Hubbell said, inspecting the copy now emerging from the teletype.
- teletype machine
- teletype operator
- teletype paper
I mean, you could have a a teletype plugged in.
- I mean, you could have a a teletype plugged in.
- Of course we didn't know it, but SOG needed communicators with Top Secret clearance to run the Radio teletype.
Examples
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From among the papers strewn on his bed, Ben Gurion picked a teletype sheet and handed it to Dayan.
Fiction book (1993) -
Yes, I'll put it on the Teletype for you.
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Put his name in the Teletype.
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I'm gonna check the Teletype at the station.
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Then you check the teletype, then the reports of incidents.
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We're getting another letter over the teletype from Khrushchev.
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Stone's aide, Colonel Michael Krieg, stepped over to his boss and handed him a Teletype report.
Fiction book (1991) -
The teletype messages that went back and forth between the radiation laboratory in Berkeley, California, and the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge were total gibberish.
Academic text (2006) -
The reporter received breaking news on the teletype system, alerting everyone in the newsroom.
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As a teletype operator, she was responsible for sending urgent military messages during the war.
Synonyms
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9.3
A machine that types and sends written messages to distant places
1
9.8
An old machine that types and sends messages over wires
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8.8
A machine that types and prints messages sent over telegraph lines
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8.8
A machine like a typewriter that sends and prints messages over wires
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9.6
A machine like a typewriter that sends typed messages over wires
A machine like a typewriter that prints messages sent over wires
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word teletype comes from tele- meaning 'far' and type meaning 'to print or write letters'. So a teletype is a machine for sending and receiving typed messages over long distances.