Definitions

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  • noun A teleprinter
  • noun A message printed by a teleprinter
  • noun Early input/output device for mainframe computer
  • verb intransitive To operate a teleprinter
  • verb transitive To send a message via teleprinter

Etymologies

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From Teletype, an early make of teleprinter

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Examples

  • Maurice Evans and Deputy DA Burl Estes wrote, Pursuant to your request this morning, I had Irene in teletype run a warrant check on Ms. Herdman.

    Edgar Allen 2010

  • Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • An FBI teletype from the New Orleans office to FBI headquarters notified Director Hoover that Carlos Marcello's attorney G. Wray Gill had notified Ferrie about the library card.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • An FBI teletype from the New Orleans office to FBI headquarters notified Director Hoover that Carlos Marcello's attorney G. Wray Gill had notified Ferrie about the library card.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • The teletype is a symbol of what will become of newspapers as we know them now.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2009 2009

  • For expenses of what is known as teletype service,

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • We had 75 Baud, Baud being another of those early computer acronyms, up from 45 Baud working on those 'teletype' machines.

    It's been very quiet here lately 2009

  • Apparently I have touched a sore spot, since Hilsman, instead of dealing with the substance of my criticism, quibbles over allegedly incomplete quotations, how many weeks constitute a "shortly after," and what kind of teletype machine links Washington to Moscow.

    An Exchange on the Missile Crisis Hilsman, Roger 1969

  • The area code 600 is a non-geographical code used in Canada for special equipment, such as teletype machines.

    Izabella's Blue 2008

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  • A teleprinter (teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY for TeleTYpe/TeleTYpewriter) is a now largely obsolete electro-mechanical typewriter which can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point and point to multipoint over a variety of communications channels that range from a simple electrical connection, such as a pair of wires, to the use of radio and microwave as the transmission medium.

    September 27, 2008