teletype, v.
(ˈtɛlɪtaɪp)
[f. prec. n.]
a. intr. To operate a teleprinter; also, to put in a request for by means of a teleprinter. b. trans. To send by means of a teleprinter.
| 1924 Daily News 19 Dec. 5/4 We must teletype as well as teletalk. 1934 Webster, Teletype v.t. & i. 1971 ‘D. Shannon’ Ringer viii. 130 Palliser had teletyped an inquiry up to Lompoc... That wasn't a very big town. 1977 D. Anthony Stud Game xxvi. 175 Seems he has a record in Texas. We've teletyped for a full report. |
So ˈteletyped ppl. a., ˈteletyping vbl. n.
| 1904 Knowledge Feb. 18/2 The Berlin Teletyping Central Station. Ibid. 19/2 Teletyping service. 1967 New Scientist 28 Dec. 766/2 Professor L. Goldberg and his colleagues..control the course of their observations by daily teletyped instructions to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 1971 Nature 25 June 482/3 A human telegraph operator reads the address on an incoming teletyped message, then retypes it in full to send it to its destination. |