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  wirephoto

  noun

  a facsimile of a photograph transmitted electronically via a telephone system

Wirephoto

American  

[wahyuhr-foh-toh] / ˈwaɪərˌfoʊ toʊ /

Trademark.

• Wirephotos
  plural

1. 1. a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire.

   2. a photograph so transmitted.

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verb (used with object)

Wirephotoed, Wirephotoing

1. (lowercase) to transmit (a photograph) by means of a Wirephoto.

wirephoto British  

/ ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ /

noun

1. a facsimile of a photograph transmitted electronically via a telephone system

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Example Sentences

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It was thus in a position to draw level pictorially with the rival Daily News by splitting with it the $150,000 yearly New York fee for the A. P.'s Wirephoto service.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a group he resembles almost anybody he happens to be standing next to; by himself he has a vague, muzzy look, as though instead of being born he had been sent by Wirephoto.

From Time Magazine Archive

In June he broadcast a voluminous letter to all AP members inviting them to help him force the AP management to rid itself of Wirephoto.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, having scooped their competitors with shots of the Rogers-Post crash, Minneapolis labor riots, the Florida hurricane, the S. S. Dixie's, grounding and lesser events, Wirephoto subscribers are well satisfied with their experiment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oddest Wirephoto of the week: a burglar in a St. Louis tire shop stumbling over a trap that sounded a horn alarm, set off a flashlight, took his own picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wirephoto machine does not have the same capability, so the Enquirer and, no doubt, dozens of other papers, had to set some of their stories manually.

From Time Magazine Archive

After Brown's staff had called papers in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia in search of information, the A.P. wirephoto machines started up again.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about pictures on Roosevelt at Casablanca?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Elsewhere in the hall are 45 other teletypes, a battery of wirephoto transmitters, and more than 2,000 telephone lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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