Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A communications system consisting of teletypewriters connected to a telephonic network to send and receive signals.
- n. A message sent or received by such a system.
- v. To send (a message) by telex.
Wiktionary
- n. A communications system consisting of a network of teletypewriters.
- n. A message sent through such a network.
- n. The machine used to send and receive such messages.
- v. transitive To send (a message) by telex.
WordNet 3.0
- v. communicate by telex
- n. a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
Etymologies
- tel(etypewriter) + ex(change). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The otherwise fabulous Regis McKenna Inc. office in Palo Alto was still using something called telex.”
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“I could barely wait to get back to the small office we had in Paris and type up what was called the telex in those days, which was a very clunky machine.”
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“What I noticed on their business cards at the time was something called a telex number.”
“By contrast, the telephone and telegraph had barely changed since he was born; radio and talkies had been around since his youth; only television and yawn telex were true novelties.”
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“He had a chattering telex in his flat, in the hallway by the bathroom.”
“It's the telex machine all over a-bloody-again, I tell you.”
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“I'll never forget the jolt of excitement that seized me, nor my frantic rush to the telex machine to get the news to the world.”
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“Messages poured in from the bank of telex machines; rolls of paper cascaded to the office floor.”
“*In an understatement, Newsweek editors in New York sent a telex to their Atlanta bureau asking reporters to “please include any controversial bits should there be any” along with “background on the dinner and whether it shatters any precedent” in a report of “200 words … including best King quotes plus menu of dinner and any color details.””
“In a telex to the New York office, the Atlanta bureau of Newsweek noted that the “response of white churches in Atlanta was spectacular, suggesting a pent-up need to be involved.””
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