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Teletype

American  
[tel-i-tahyp] / ˈtɛl ɪˌtaɪp /
Trademark.
  1. a brand of teletypewriter.


noun

  1. (lowercase) a network of teletypewriters with their connecting lines, switchboards, etc.

verb (used with object)

Teletyped, Teletyping
  1. (lowercase) to send by Teletype.

verb (used without object)

Teletyped, Teletyping
  1. (lowercase) to operate a Teletype.

Teletype British  
/ ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp /

noun

  1. a type of teleprinter

  2. (sometimes not capital) a network of such devices, used for communicating messages, information, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (sometimes not capital) to transmit (a message) by Teletype

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One famous Texas baseball re-creator narrated an epic — and entirely imagined — at-bat in which the heroic batter fouled off 58 pitches before the Teletype finally spit out the next bit of actual news.

From Washington Post Sep. 29, 2016

About a year later, at what Ali titled the Thrilla in Manila, with Frazier, the Teletype reigned again in what I described as an “epic in brutality.”

From New York Times May 1, 2015

Teletype machines at ringside were rendered useless and stories made it to newspapers via simple telephone dictation.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2014

In 1968, she signed on to the same Teletype machine that gave a young Gates access to a mainframe computer.

From Seattle Times Jun. 14, 2013

A typical four-hour game was transformed by the Teletype process into an eight- or nine-hour affair.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Teletyped to the field offices under Gray's name on Sept.

From Time Magazine Archive

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