What's the difference between message and telegram?

Message


Definition:

  • (n.) Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
  • (n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message.
  • (v. t.) To bear as a message.
  • (n.) A messenger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (3) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
  • (4) The gene, which is located at chromosome XIII, is transcribed as a mRNA of about 2.7 kilobases, and the amount of message has been found to increase 3- to 4-fold during the culture.
  • (5) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
  • (6) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (7) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
  • (8) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (9) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
  • (10) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (11) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
  • (12) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (13) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (14) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (15) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
  • (16) I would suggest it works because either [inflammatory messages] have been taken down or no disorder has come of them," the spokesman said.
  • (17) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (18) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (19) With Gringrich, Huntsman and Santorum in a deadheat, each will be seeking to find a message that will resonate and help them break out off the bunch.
  • (20) He also noted that an earlier message from another person was far worse.

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.

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