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单词 aerogram
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aerogramn.

Brit. /ˈɛːrə(ʊ)ɡram/, U.S. /ˈɛroʊˌɡræm/, /ˈɛrəˌɡræm/
Forms: see aero- comb. form and -gram comb. form.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: aero- comb. form, -gram comb. form.
Etymology: < aero- comb. form + -gram comb. form.With sense 2b compare earlier aerogramme n.
1.
a. A message sent by (an imagined) aircraft or airline. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.Quot. 1890 is from a fantasy imagining the world in 1929.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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