teletype

Examples

• All

• Well, you ordered the condensers from Supreme by teletype.

  This Island Earth (1955)

• Oh, this came over the teletype from Washington this morning.

  The Astro-Zombies (1968)

• Just came over the Teletype a few minutes ago.

  First Blood (1982)

• It's coming in on the teletype.

  Thirteen Days (2000)

• I'd like a copy of the teletype.

  Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)

• Anyway, it went out again last night on Nationwide Teletype.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Okay, okay, we, uh... we need to send out an all-office teletype.

  Catch Me If You Can (2002)

• Here's the duplicate of the order I sent by teletype three days ago.

  This Island Earth (1955)

• You got my teletype?

  One, Two, Three (1961)

• The news about the earthquake arrived on the teletype before any other source.

Synonyms

T

text

vsteletype

• Texting

338 1.0

A short written message sent by phone or app

is produced by a remote machine and appears as continuous printed output

W

wire

vsteletype

• Archaic

117 7.3

A short message sent by telegram

is sent by a machine that prints continuous messages over long distances

F

fax

vsteletype

56 2.3

A document sent over a phone line and printed at the other end

sends characters from a machine that prints continuous lines

Compounds

T

teletype machine

• Archaic

1 8.8

A machine that types and prints messages sent over telegraph lines

Surface Forms

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Etymology