[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.", "Nautical.an apparatus, usually mechanical, for transmitting and receiving orders between the bridge of a ship and the engine room or some other part of the engineering department.", "a message sent by telegraph; a telegram ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to transmit or send (a message) by telegraph.", "to send a message to (a person) by telegraph.", "Informal.to divulge or indicate unwittingly (one's intention, next offensive move, etc.), as to an opponent or to an audience; broadcast:The fighter telegraphed his punch and his opponent was able to parry it. If you act nervous too early in the scene, you'll telegraph the character's guilt."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to send a message by telegraph."]}]