telex
Americannoun
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(sometimes initial capital letter) a two-way teletypewriter service channeled through a public telecommunications system for instantaneous, direct communication between subscribers at remote locations.
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a teletypewriter used to send or receive on such a service.
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a message transmitted by telex.
verb (used with object)
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telexes,
present (3rd person singular)
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telexed,
past participle, past
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telexing
present participle
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to send (a message) by telex.
We telex instructions to the agent.
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to send a message by telex to.
They telexed the Paris office.
noun
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an international telegraph service in which teleprinters are rented out to subscribers for the purpose of direct communication
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a teleprinter used in such a service
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a message transmitted or received by telex
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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telexsimple
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telexessimple
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have telexedperfect
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has telexedperfect
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am telexingprogressive
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are telexingprogressive
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is telexingprogressive
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have been telexingperfect progressive
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has been telexingperfect progressive
Past
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telexedsimple
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had telexedperfect
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was telexingprogressive
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were telexingprogressive
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had been telexingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of telex
First recorded in 1930–35; tel(eprinter) + ex(change)
Example Sentences
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"Satish was getting phone calls and the telex machine was chattering away as well," remembers Baxter.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
The telex machines, which could send text-based messages over established phone networks, were a smart workaround — the data from those messages would be processed by the central computer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
For another work meant to critique the divide between art and the outside world, Haacke set up a telex machine to print live news updates on a seemingly endless paper scroll.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
Everything has changed since I was filing by telex from the Commodore Hotel in Beirut in 1983.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2019
To send a telex, you'll need the recipient's telex number, an answerback code, and the code of the recipient's country.
From The Online World by Odd De Presno
The tools of the trade used to be typewriters and telexes, but the thrill is just the same.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
“SIGINT,” in the parlance of the intelligence community, is gleaned from phone transmissions, telexes, emails, satellites and other forms of electronic communication.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2020
You'd be waiting for these telexes to come out of the machine the size of 10 washing machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
The fixed loci of communication — phone booths, the single land-line handset in the family hallway, untransportable machines known as telexes and, later, faxes — are obsolete or heading that way.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
Letters and telexes often go unanswered, and phone calls frequently are not returned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Convinced that Steenhoven carried secret orders to clinch a business deal with Peking, Japanese automen telexed their U.S. offices to find out everything possible about him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two were assured the letter would be telexed to Moscow promptly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Following standard procedure, the center telexed its counterpart in the Soviet port of Murmansk to inquire if help was needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Iranian central bank had not telexed its payment order to the U.S. banks, and Iran's chief negotiator, Behzad Nabavi, was calling that final eleven-page document a new and unacceptable set of demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back at his hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index.
From Time Magazine Archive
After months of telexing messages to Moscow, Tunney got the license, and presto, he and his friend have exclusive rights in the Western Hemisphere to promote the Olympics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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