telegraph wire

Questions about telegraph wire

What is another word for telegraph wire?

It depends which telegraph wire you mean. In the sense “the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals”, the synonyms are telephone wire, telephone line, telegraph line. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of telegraph wire?

WordNet records no antonym for telegraph wire. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for telegraph wire come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of telegraph wire

• Full entry for telegraph wireAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for telegraph wireWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.