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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Synonym of teletype, a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: teletype
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: teletypewriter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: character printer, character-at-a-time printer, serial printer
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- English print Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English printer English teleprinter From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + printer.
