Telegram
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A message transmitted by telegraph
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To send a telegram.
Example sentence: Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
Wire
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cableA metal conductor that carries electricity.A fence made of usually barbed wire.A finish line of a racetrack.A telecommunication wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; a telegramA hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.A deadline or critical endpoint.A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.To string on a wire.To equip with wires for use with electricity.To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.To make someone tense or psyched-up.To install eavesdropping equipment.
Example sentence: I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.