Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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.
name
Alternative letter-case form of telex in its various senses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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name
A convention for encoding Vietnamese text for transmission across telex systems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Input method for Vietnamese text based on this convention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A network of teletypes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A teletype message sent through such a network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A teletype device connected to such a network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To send a message over a telex network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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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, teleprinter, teletype machine, telex machine
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Broader terms: character printer, character-at-a-time printer, serial printer
verb
communicate by telex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: telecommunicate
History
From Telex Printergram, a service offered beginning 15 Aug. 1932 by the British General Post Office's Central Telegraph Office, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange. Subsequently branded in the United States by Western Union and then similarly genericized. In reference to the Vietnamese conventions, a borrowing of Vietnamese Telex, from French télex, from the English term.
From genericization of Telex Printergram and Telex, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange.
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
