单词 | aerogram |
释义 | aerogramn. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > types of telotype1850 cablegram1868 cable-message1877 phonogram1880 cable1883 ticking1888 aerogram1890 T.T.1893 petit bleu1898 Marconigram1902 radio-telegram1902 radiogram1903 wireless1903 news flash1904 teleflash1904 lettergram1908 day letter1910 night letter telegram1910 night telegraph letter1912 radio1915 printergram1932 teletype1933 greeting telegram1937 telemessage1941 overnight telegram1955 telex1957 1890 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 14 Feb. 499/1 The Astronomical Society of the Pacific..succeeded in establishing a new satellite. An aërogram to the Examiner yesterday from Quito announced the success of the second attempt. b. A message sent by radio. Now disused.Quot. 1890 at sense 1a comes from a fantasy imagining the world in 1929. ΚΠ 1899 Daily News 20 Nov. 7/1 ‘Wanted, a new name for wireless telegraphy’, Miss Collett, Hyde-park-mansions, suggests..‘Aerogram’. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 20 Dec. 6/2 (heading) Halfpenny-a-word aerograms. 1915 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 6 Mar. 1/1 An aerogram picked up there [sc. in Queenstown] reported LaTourine was burning freely and..the steamers rushing to her assistance had redoubled their speed. 2. a. A telegram conveyed on part of its journey by aeroplane. rare (now disused). ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letters, etc., by method of dispatch or conveyance post-letter1648 ship-letterc1675 by-letter1685 penny-post letter1686 way letter1710 by-night1766 cross-letter1789 twopenny1818 box letter1827 non-paid1829 balloon-letter1870 pigeongram1875 railway letter1891 pneumatogram1894 airmail1918 aerogram1919 airgram1919 air letter1920 pneumatique1924 pneu1926 snail mail1929 aerogramme1934 airgraph1941 1919 Times 1 May 9/2 Mr. Holt Thomas gave some details of a projected scheme of communication which combined the telephone or telegraph with the aeroplane. Messages sent by the system would be described as aerograms. 1920 Discovery June 173/1 The rates could be..3d. for letters, 1s. for aerograms..in addition..to local telegram rates. b. A letter sent by air mail; spec. a folding form made of a single sheet of lightweight paper specially designed to be used for this purpose. Cf. air letter n. at air n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > other types of letter billet-doux1673 poulet1691 treble letter1753 round robin1755 screed1834 tickler1846 application letter1850 test letter1869 letter of envoy1873 hastener1922 fan letter1932 aerogram1933 yum-yum1943 newsletter1961 overnights1975 1933 Aero Digest Nov. 15/1 The idea for the adoption of what has been called the ‘aerogram’, a single sheet letter which in the folding produces its own envelope and also produces a piece of correspondence so light in weight that it can be transported economically by air for three cents. 1949 Boston Globe 27 Nov. a27/1 There was issued by Iceland a blue-tinted air letter form. Icelandic authorities described it as an aerogram. 1953 D. Dodge Poor Man's Guide Europe xii. 296 A supply of economical prestamped aerograms, one-piece letter-and-envelope combinations. 1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xi. 136 If ever you get an enquiry.., just paste letters from a piper [i.e. paper] inside an aerogram. 1973 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 18 Oct. 31/5 The domestogram..is similar to aerograms now used for mail abroad. 1982 Daily Tel. 8 May 6/5 Aerogram letters to British troops in the Task Force are to be carried free of charge. 1999 C. B. Divakaruni Sister of my Heart ii. v. 200 My heart starts beating fast as soon as I glimpse..the blue aerogram from America. 3. Medicine. = pneumogram n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > an X-radiograph > using specific techniques roentgenograph1905 pneumogram1921 kymogram1923 pneumograph1927 aerogram1935 tomograph1935 planigram1936 tomogram1936 laminagraph1938 photofluorograph1941 photofluorogram1942 orthoroentgenogram1946 pantomogram1954 lymphangiogram1955 orthopantomogram1959 panograph1961 cineradiograph1965 1935 W. A. N. Dorland & E. C. Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 17) 53/1 Aerogram, a roentgenogram of an organ after it has been injected with air. 1952 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 13 600/1 In eight instances the perirenal aerogram was considered negative for tumor. 1985 Acta Radiologica 26 277 The appearance of the aerogram was reliable in differentiating between a simple cyst and an intracystic lesion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1890 |
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