| 释义 |
ˈaerogram
[f. aero- + -gram.]
1. A message sent ‘through the air’, i.e. by radio.
1899Daily News 20 Nov. 7/1 ‘Wanted, a new name for wireless telegraphy’, Miss Collett, Hyde-park-mansions, suggests..‘Aerogram’. 1901Westm. Gaz. 20 Dec. 6/2 (heading) Halfpenny-a-word aerograms.
2. An X-ray photograph of an organ injected with air.
1935Dorland & Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 17) 53/1 Aerogram, a roentgenogram of an organ after it has been injected with air.
3. = air letter s.v. air n.1 B III. 1. (In quot. 1920, a telegram conveyed on part of its journey by aeroplane.)
1920Discovery June 173/1 The rates could be..3d. for letters, 1s. for aerograms..in addition..to local telegram rates. 1967C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xi. 136 If ever you get an enquiry.., just paste letters from a piper [sc. paper] inside an aerogram. 1973Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ontario) 18 Oct. 31/5 The domestogram..is similar to aerograms now used for mail abroad. 1982Daily Tel. 8 May 6/5 Aerogram letters to British troops in the Task Force are to be carried free of charge. |