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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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Although 24 A. P. offices are equipped with Wirephoto machines, 49 newspapers actually take the service.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the Examiner had no Associated Press Wirephoto Service, more than once it ran what looked like exact duplicates of Times Wirephotos of deaths & disasters.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan.

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

Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize.

From Time Magazine Archive

By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.'

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

Noting that they were suspiciously similar to ordinary wirephoto transmissions, the men at Jodrell Bank fed them into an ordinary facsimile machine hurriedly borrowed from London's Daily Express.

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