What's the difference between cablegram and telegram?
Cablegram
Definition:
(n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
Example Sentences:
Telegram
Definition:
(n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(2) After he read the telegram, Hunt turned to his signals officer and said: "They might have added goodbye and the best of British!"
(3) Sampson became the discreet, muttering centre of a web, connected by telephone and letter, telegram and fax, to an astounding cast of world leaders and commentarians, film stars and novelists.
(4) Finally Walter [Sisulu] came to me and knelt beside my bed, and I handed him the telegram.
(5) MI5 intercepted a telegram from Ivor Montagu, a film critic, producer and one-time Soviet spy, telling Chaplin how sorry he was to miss him in London when the star visited London in 1952.
(6) He said: "But later on the film when it gets on to what happened recently where just huge dumps of information – every single telegram they had was made public without thinking of the consequences and huge lives could be put at risk.
(7) A note written by Weinberg on the same day stated: “I spoke with Mrs Reagan about the attached telegram.
(8) In a telegram to Memorial, he promised that Estemirova's death would be investigated "in a most careful manner".
(9) As soon as he had that frightening homosexual disease, he became as unwanted and ignored as the rest of us.” Documents show Hudson was eventually admitted to the military hospital some days after the telegram was sent to the Reagans, after intervention from the then French defence minister Charles Hernu.
(10) In her telegram on 30 May 1982, she said cabinet colleagues were "all dismayed by the prospect of France supplying these missiles to Peru when, as you yourself agreed, there can be no doubt that Peru will pass them on to Argentina".
(11) The first interrogation was conducted at Bagram just as Straw was sending his telegram.
(12) Hopefully for Sniper Elite V3 there'll be an even more comprehensive kill sequence in which, after an even more explicit close-up of the bullet boring a path through some Nazi intestine, the camera hurtles to the other side of the world and shows his sweetheart's expression as she receives a telegram announcing his death.
(13) Shortly after Mubanga's detention, Jack Straw telegrammed Lusaka .
(14) Isis’s claim of responsibility for Abedi’s crime was posted in Arabic and English on channels that the group uses on the encrypted Telegram instant messaging service.
(15) Manchester United’s players sent Bill Shankly a telegram of congratulation.
(16) End-to-end encryption is offered by Apple, as part of its iMessage serivce, by Facebook through its WhatsApp subsidiary, and by a number of other messaging apps including Line, Telegram and Signal.
(17) Burgess was anxious to visit his ailing mother – their warm relationship is reflected in a telegram he wrote in June 1951, apparently sent from Rome, which appears in the files.
(18) One file, Anderson says, "contains a telegram, from Governor Baring to the secretary of state for the colonies, dated 17 January 1955, detailing 'brutal allegations' against eight British district officers regarding the murder of detainees under 'screening' (ie interrogation).
(19) The Kremlin also tried to play down the political impact by saying Putin had followed protocol by sending a telegram congratulating Lukashenko on his 59th birthday on Friday.
(20) A secret telegram sent by the US embassy in Azerbaijan revealed how Russia's defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, gave his own views after a boozy evening in February 2009 with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Safar Abiyev.