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| Main Entry: |
broadcast
 [brawd-kast, -kahst] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put forth on electronic media |
| Synonyms: | air, announce, be on the air, beam, cable, circulate, colorcast, communicate, get out, go on the air, go on the airwaves, put on the air, radio, radiograph, relay, send, show, simulcast, telecast, telegraph, telephone, televise, transmit |
| Main Entry: | foreshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, be in the wind, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | forewarn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | caution that something may happen |
| Synonyms: | admonish, advise, alarm, alert, apprise, dissuade, flag, forbode, give fair warning, give the high sign, portend, premonish, pull one's coat, put a bug in one's ear, put on guard, put one wise, telegraph, tip, tip off, wave a red flag |
Example Sentences
- It was not won with guns, railroads, or telegraph lines.
- He suggested hanging buoys, yacht pennants, and old lighthouse lanterns to telegraph nautical charm.
- Other times it doesn't, as when the telegraph network failed to devour the telephone.
| Main Entry: | predict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express an outcome in advance |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, be afraid, call, call it, conclude, conjecture, croak, crystal-ball divine, envision, figure, figure out, forebode, forecast, foresee, forespeak, foretell, gather, guess, have a hunch, hazard a guess, infer, judge, make book, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, read, see coming, see handwriting on wall, size up, soothsay, suppose, surmise, telegraph, think, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | telegram |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | message sent by coded radio signals |
| Synonyms: | buzzer, cable, cablegram, call, coded message, flash, radiogram, report, signal, summons, telegraph, telegraphic message, teletype, telex, wire |
| Main Entry: | wire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conducting strand |
| Synonyms: | cable, coil, line, message, strand, telegram, telegraph, thread |
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