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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A teletypewriter.
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- noun dated A combined
electromechanical typewriter andprinter , often with an integratedpaper tape reader/printer, connected to others or to acomputer via thetelephone system.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
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Examples
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The exhibition's statement that Bauer's stubbornness made a skeptical Mossad probe Ricardo Klement's identity is an admirable concession that Israeli espionage owes one of its major achievements to a Diaspora Jew, a gratitude expressed also through the display of the teleprinter and tickertape by which an agent was ordered to ཧinform Bauer of Eichmann's kidnapping.
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The BBC's classified football results on Final Score, once part of Grandstand, now soldiering on alone since the demise of the corporation's flagship television sports production, have provided a calm, soothing counterpoint to the dramatic tappity‑tap-taps of the teleprinter in its various guises🤪 since♋ the feature was inaugurated in 1958.
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At lunchtime the editor of the East African Standard telephoned the princess's secretary, Martin Charteris, at the Outspan to ask if the teleprinter reports were true.
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She would go away when we sprayed teleprinter lubricant (we had large supplies but no machine following two of us being ✤sent on the ‘relevant’ week of training) behind her to dis𒀰pel the phantom officers who were spying on her.
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Gingrich adds that if he is the Republican nominee he will dog Obama's re-election campaign by turning up four hours after the president speaks in any place to give his own speech "but without a teleprinter".2.2♉6pm: Here's a smart piece by Kevin Drum of🅘 Mother Jones on whether Newt Gingrich is any good at debating or not.
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It's classic Furst – elegantly written, faultlessly researched, full of lovely details such as the illicit rebetiko music in the clubs where Zannis goes to smoke hashish, and the Siemens teleprinter in his office.
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The first improved designs included an acoustic coupler that converted audio tones received from the telephone handset resting in a cradle to typed messages on the teleprinter.
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I started to break in, and as it turned out, the two rooms contained the supersecret teleprinter of the Warsaw Pact [the Soviet🔴-led military alliance].
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CSI and Law & Order are the first two that spring to my mind; use of torchlight to add mood, teleprinter locati꧒on/timeframe subtitles, the male/female pairing (which had previously been male🍷 good cop/male bad cop).
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The X-Files grew up just as the audience was becoming personally familiar with mobile phones, and with this plot device, plus the teleprinter location/timeframe subtitles, created fast paced stories with virtually ✤no let-up that ensured the audience remained glued to the screenܫ.
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