morsen.¹

Brit.

/mɔːs/, U.S.

/mɔrs/

Forms: late Middle English mors, 1500s 1800s– morse.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mors.

Etymology: < Middle French mors (c1160 in Old French in this sense; also in Old French in sense ‘piece, bit’ (1176), and in Anglo-Norman and Old French in sense ‘bite, mouthful’ (c1120 in Old French); compare morsel n.)) < classical Latin morsus bite, catch (of a buckle) < mordēre to bite (see mordant adj.) + -sus , variant of -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare moyce n.

The clasp or fastening of a cope, frequently made of gold or silver, and set with precious stones.

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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > cope > fastening of

morse1404

moycec1550

1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 394 (MED) Item j mors cum lapidibus.

1489 Will of John Atwode (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 231^v A Mortuary cloth of blac velvett, the orfraies and Mors w^t fflowres.

1536 Reg. Riches Cathedral of Sarum in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 197 Six copes..having in the Morse red and white Roses of pearls.

c1540 Inventory Westm. Abbey in Trans. London & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. (1871) 4 329 iij copes of white bawdekyn with ffleures of gold and dases..and thys letter I in the morses.

c1540 Inventory Westm. Abbey in Trans. London & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. (1871) 4 349 xxvij newe morsys for copys.

1826 A. E. Bray De Foix I. ii. 48 His tunic was fastened in front by a morse, or brooch, richly enamelled,..and representing the Virgin Mary.

1890 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) xi. 208 The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.

1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 118 (caption) Motif on Morse (fastening panel).

1989 Apollo Mar. 196/2 Design for a morse by Sir Ninian Comper, Norwich Cathedral Treasury.

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morsen.²

Brit.

/mɔːs/, U.S.

/mɔrs/

Forms: late Middle English–1700s mors, 1500s morsse, 1500s– morse, 1600s mohorse, 1600s morss, 1600s moss, 1700s morsh.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare Old Russian morž″ (Russian morž), Saami moršâ, Finnish mursu, although these are all attested only later. Compare French morse (1618, rare before the late 18th cent.; attested earlier in Middle French as mors (1540), and morce (c1570 in morce marin: see note below)).Middle French morce marin is probably borrowed from Caxton's mors marine (see quot. 1482 at sense 1). Quot. 1482 at sense 1 provides the earliest evidence for the word in any language. The following provides the earliest evidence for the word outside English:1526 G. von Herberstein Rerum Moscoviticanum Commentarii 58 Merces vero quae inde..portantur..in Litvuaniam et Thurciam, corium, pelles, et albi longi dentes animalium, quae ipsi mors [1549 morsh] appellant. In form mohorse probably remodelled after horse n.

1. A walrus. Now rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Odobenidae (walrus)

morse1482

seahorse?a1500

rosmarine1590

horse-whale1598

sea-elephant1601

sea-ox1613

sea-morse1631

sea-cow1668

walrus1728

walrus calf1896

1482 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cclvii. 336 This yere were take iiij grete fisshes bytwene Eerethe and london, that one was callyd mors marine [etc.].

a1556 R. Chancellor in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 237 There are also a fishes teeth, which fish is called a Morsse.

c1614 Voy. [to Spitzbergen] in Arcaeologia Americana (1860) 4 313 Theise morses use to goe ashoare vpon some beach or pointe of lowe land.

1625 J. Hall Voy. Greenland in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iv. xiv. 818 Bartering..Whale Finnes, Seales Skinnes, Morse Teeth.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §v. i. 89 A piece of a Morse-Hide.

1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 83 Morses, or sea-horses, from Nova Zembla, used to load thirty boats a year with blubber.

1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 92 Those tall grave dazzling Norse, clear-cheeked, lank-haired, toothed whiter than the morse.

1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 471 The Walrus, Morse, or Sea-Horse,..is an inhabitant of the Arctic portions of both Hemispheres.

1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 89 A morse ivory thumb-ring of an Earl of Shrewsbury.

1927 Observer 24 Apr. 7 Miss Longhurst..wisely allows the term ‘ivory’ to include related materials, such as whale's bone and morse ivory.

1992 Yale French Stud. No. 81. 13 The morse (walrus), an aquatic mammal of the same order as the seal.

†2. A hippopotamus. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Hippopotamidae > hippopotamus, amphibiusi, or hippo

hippopotamusa1398

water horsea1398

river horse1583

seahorse1600

sea-ox1600

morse1703

sea-cow1731

hippo1850

1703 Athenian Oracle II. 476/2 The Behemoth is the Hippopotamus, the Sea-Horse, River-Horse, or Morse.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Morse, the hippopotamus, the river horse.

1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Morse teeth, a name given to the teeth of the hippopotamus used for making artificial teeth.

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Morsen.³

Brit.

/mɔːs/, U.S.

/mɔrs/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Morse.

Etymology: < the name of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872), U.S. painter and electrician, who invented this type of electric telegraph and the code to be used on it.

Telegraphy.

I. Compounds.

1. attributive. Designating the electric telegraph system invented by Morse or things relating to it, esp. equipment and apparatus involved in the transmission of Morse code.

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Morse1849

1846 Commerc. Rev. South & West Feb. 133 (heading) Morse's Electro-magnetic Telegraph.

1847 ‘Peter Progress’ Electr. Telegr. 63 Morse's Telegraph. This variety of the Electric Telegraph is employed on all the American lines.]

1849 Sci. Amer. Dec. 109 In a recent suit against Henry O'Reilly for an infringement of the Morse telegraph patent,..Judge McLean decided that the Morse patent was null and void.

1853 De Bow's Rev. Feb. 187/2 Mr. Shaffner..proceeded to negotiate with the patentees of the Morse telegraph... The first Morse section..was constructed by these gentlemen, alongside of a rival line built at the same time.

1860 G. B. Prescott Electr. Telegr. iii. v. 73 Electric telegraph apparatus. The Morse system.

1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 149 The Morse recorder.

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 105 It is an exceedingly rare thing to fix more than four stations on one Morse circuit.

1898 R. Kerr Wireless Telegr. 93 The Morse inker.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 957/2 A complete system of signalling by night and day on the Morse system is worked by the police.

1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xliv. 713 The receiving Morse instrument indicates the arrival of the signals.

1997 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 13 July Recruits will no longer be trained to operate the Morse buttons by which messages could be flashed to other ships.

a. Morse alphabet n. the set of signals or symbols used to represent letters in Morse code.

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1852 E. Highton Electr. Telegr. 63 The following represents Professor Morse's alphabet, composed..of long and short marks.]

1858 E. E. Hale If, Yes & Perhaps (1868) 119 It is not the business simply of ‘operators’ in telegraphic dens to know this Morse alphabet.

1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 90 The Morse alphabet.

1881 Harper's Mag. Oct. 712/2 The receiving operator listens to the note of the fork that sings with it, and the notes appear as the letters of the Morse alphabet.

1942 V.D. (title) The Morse alphabet. How to learn it quickly. A new method for beginners.

1961 Man 61 27/1 From very early times information has been conveyed in a two-state code (cf. the bush telegraph or the Morse alphabet).

b. Morse key n. a key forming part of the Morse telegraph apparatus, which is pressed and released to send signals in Morse code.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > transmitter > key

telegraph key1848

Morse key1858

tapper1876

1858 in G. B. Prescott Hist. Electr. Telegraph (1860) xiv. 191 We work with Morse key and detector.

1898 R. Kerr Wireless Telegr. 97 A small Morse key.

1918 W. H. Eccles Wireless Telegr. & Teleph. (ed. 2) 247 When the high voltage in the repeat side does not exceed 100 or 200 volts it is easy to interrupt that circuit by aid of a morse key.

1969 W. Mitford Lovely She Goes! xi. 56 A tense Sparks stood by the morse key ready to call for help.

1984 N. Guild Berlin Warning (1985) ii. 22 She had learned to..tap out gibberish on a Morse key.

c. Morse code n. a code devised by Morse for use with the electric telegraph, in which the letters are represented by combinations of long and short electrical signals represented audibly or visually, or by long and short flashes of light or (in writing) dashes and dots.The code was first used in conjunction with the Morse telegraph to send signals across land via a telegraph wire, esp. by railway companies in the United States. The code was slightly adapted in Europe for simplicity, so that all letters were represented by patterns of short and long signals of fixed duration (certain letters in the original code were represented by patterns of dots and spaces or of dashes of varying length). In this form it became widely used for sending messages to and from ships at sea, esp. by radiotelegraphy. During the 20th cent. the use of the code to send messages across land gradually died out as the use of teleprinters became widespread, and it was eventually used chiefly to send distress signals from ships (as the message ‘SOS’, easily transmitted in Morse code), but this use has now been largely abandoned, superseded by newer systems of radio communication, notably the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > code > Morse code

Morse code1867

Morse1876

iddy-umpty1906

1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 87 The Morse Code.

1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 15/2 The waves written by the syphon above the central line corresponding to the dots of the Morse Code.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xx. 268 The sound was regular and concerted—dot, dash, dot—dash, dot, dot…the longs and shorts of the Morse Code.

1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday 13 A mechanically inclined boy has a wireless set, with which, if he knows the Morse code, he may listen to messages from ships at sea.

1972 V. Pitt First Look at Signals 38 The most famous distress signal is S.O.S... It may be tapped out in Morse Code.

1990 D. Ackerman Nat. Hist. Senses p. xvii A woman sits at a telegraph key and rattles Morse code along a wire. The dots and dashes..combine in elaborate ways to make their messages clear.

1993 E. Iverem Time i. 24 Night bugs sound electric clicking a morse code about omega.

II. Simple uses.

†3. The Morse electric telegraph. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs

telegraph register1845

Morse1867

recorder1867

nicker1871

ink-writer1876

inker1882

ticker1883

news ticker1887

tape-machine1891

synchronograph1897

tape-ticker1904

undulator1910

reperforator1913

1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 86 Embossing Instrument with movable Magnet. This is a construction of the Morse by Messrs. Siemens and Halske.

4. Morse code. Also figurative.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > code > Morse code

Morse code1867

Morse1876

iddy-umpty1906

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 105 In England we never do use the Morse on such circuits.

1952 E. J. Pratt Towards Last Spike 28 A cable started rolling mills in Europe: A tap of Morse sent hundreds to the bush, Where axes swung on spruce and the saws sang.

1958 I. Fleming Dr. No vii. 85 The fireflies, the ‘blink-a-blinks’, as Quarrel called them, came out and began flashing their sexual morse.

1988 Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 1/2 The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) will be introduced in 1993—from which time Morse will no longer be a requirement for ships at sea.

1990 E. Boland Outside Hist. in Coll. Poems (1995) 156 This river which moments ago must have flashed the morse of a bayonet thrust.

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Morsen.⁴

Brit.

/mɔːs/, U.S.

/mɔrs/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Morse.

Etymology: < the name of Philip McCord Morse (1903–85), U.S. physicist, who proposed the equation (1929 in Physical Rev. 34 58).

Physical Chemistry.

attributive and in the genitive, esp. in Morse equation, Morse potential. Designating or relating to the potential energy of a two-atom molecule as a function of the distance between the atoms, as given by the formula V = D_e {1 − e^−a(R−Re)}², where D_e is the depth of the potential energy minimum, R the distance between the atomic nuclei, and R_e the equilibrium bond length of the molecule, at which potential energy is lowest.

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1929 Physical Rev. 34 448 The original justification for supposing that Morse's potential function..would fit the facts adequately for HCL was that the energy level formula given by Morse is of the right form.

1930 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 130 106 For hydrogen, unfortunately, the inaccuracy of U curves drawn from the Morse formula is probably appreciable.

1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. viii. 574 This weakness of the Morse function is not serious, because the conditions under which the internuclear distance approaches zero are of no practical significance.

1972 C. H. DePuy & O. L. Chapman Molecular Reactions & Photochem. i. 1 This can be illustrated most simply for a diatomic molecule by means of a Morse curve.

1986 M. Rigby et al. Forces between Molecules iii. 67 Another potential energy function for which an exact solution of the Schrödinger equation is possible is the Morse potential.

1998 Chem. Physics (Electronic text) 223 229 Assuming the potential surface of a cesium dimer [Cs₂], which is modeled by a Morse potential.., we calculated the third- and fifth-order response functions for various temperatures and heat-bath couplings.

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Morsev.

Brit.

/mɔːs/, U.S.

/mɔrs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Morse n.³

Etymology: < Morse n.³

Telegraphy.

intransitive and transitive. To signal using Morse code. Also in extended use.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > make signals [verb (intransitive)] > signal by morse

Morse1906

society > communication > indication > signalling > signal (something) [verb (transitive)] > signal by morse

Morse1906

1906 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Jan. 232/2 Ah! now she's Morsing against the fog.

1920 Punch 31 Mar. 245/1 It can be used for Morsing instructions about breakfast to the cook.

1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 534 Sudden load changes of 18 kw. (29 h.p. at 85 per cent. efficiency) could be thrown on and off the engine by violently ‘morsing’ the switch on the load panel without upsetting stability.

1963 M. Lowry Ultramarine (rev. ed.) vi. 275 There she goes, she's morseing her name.

1999 Arena (Nexis) 1 Dec. 29 She morsed distress, and ten days later..landed in Darwin.

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n.¹1404

n.²1482

n.³1849

n.⁴1929

v.1906

单词	morse
释义	morsen.¹ Brit. /mɔːs/, U.S. /mɔrs/ Forms: late Middle English mors, 1500s 1800s– morse. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mors. Etymology: < Middle French mors (c1160 in Old French in this sense; also in Old French in sense ‘piece, bit’ (1176), and in Anglo-Norman and Old French in sense ‘bite, mouthful’ (c1120 in Old French); compare morsel n.)) < classical Latin morsus bite, catch (of a buckle) < mordēre to bite (see mordant adj.) + -sus , variant of -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare moyce n. The clasp or fastening of a cope, frequently made of gold or silver, and set with precious stones. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > cope > fastening of morse1404 moycec1550 1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 394 (MED) Item j mors cum lapidibus. 1489 Will of John Atwode (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 231^v A Mortuary cloth of blac velvett, the orfraies and Mors w^t fflowres. 1536 Reg. Riches Cathedral of Sarum in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 197 Six copes..having in the Morse red and white Roses of pearls. c1540 Inventory Westm. Abbey in Trans. London & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. (1871) 4 329 iij copes of white bawdekyn with ffleures of gold and dases..and thys letter I in the morses. c1540 Inventory Westm. Abbey in Trans. London & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. (1871) 4 349 xxvij newe morsys for copys. 1826 A. E. Bray De Foix I. ii. 48 His tunic was fastened in front by a morse, or brooch, richly enamelled,..and representing the Virgin Mary. 1890 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) xi. 208 The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work. 1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 118 (caption) Motif on Morse (fastening panel). 1989 Apollo Mar. 196/2 Design for a morse by Sir Ninian Comper, Norwich Cathedral Treasury. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). morsen.² Brit. /mɔːs/, U.S. /mɔrs/ Forms: late Middle English–1700s mors, 1500s morsse, 1500s– morse, 1600s mohorse, 1600s morss, 1600s moss, 1700s morsh. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare Old Russian morž″ (Russian morž), Saami moršâ, Finnish mursu, although these are all attested only later. Compare French morse (1618, rare before the late 18th cent.; attested earlier in Middle French as mors (1540), and morce (c1570 in morce marin: see note below)).Middle French morce marin is probably borrowed from Caxton's mors marine (see quot. 1482 at sense 1). Quot. 1482 at sense 1 provides the earliest evidence for the word in any language. The following provides the earliest evidence for the word outside English:1526 G. von Herberstein Rerum Moscoviticanum Commentarii 58 Merces vero quae inde..portantur..in Litvuaniam et Thurciam, corium, pelles, et albi longi dentes animalium, quae ipsi mors [1549 morsh] appellant. In form mohorse probably remodelled after horse n. 1. A walrus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Odobenidae (walrus) morse1482 seahorse?a1500 rosmarine1590 horse-whale1598 sea-elephant1601 sea-ox1613 sea-morse1631 sea-cow1668 walrus1728 walrus calf1896 1482 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cclvii. 336 This yere were take iiij grete fisshes bytwene Eerethe and london, that one was callyd mors marine [etc.]. a1556 R. Chancellor in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 237 There are also a fishes teeth, which fish is called a Morsse. c1614 Voy. [to Spitzbergen] in Arcaeologia Americana (1860) 4 313 Theise morses use to goe ashoare vpon some beach or pointe of lowe land. 1625 J. Hall Voy. Greenland in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iv. xiv. 818 Bartering..Whale Finnes, Seales Skinnes, Morse Teeth. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §v. i. 89 A piece of a Morse-Hide. 1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 83 Morses, or sea-horses, from Nova Zembla, used to load thirty boats a year with blubber. 1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 92 Those tall grave dazzling Norse, clear-cheeked, lank-haired, toothed whiter than the morse. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 471 The Walrus, Morse, or Sea-Horse,..is an inhabitant of the Arctic portions of both Hemispheres. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 89 A morse ivory thumb-ring of an Earl of Shrewsbury. 1927 Observer 24 Apr. 7 Miss Longhurst..wisely allows the term ‘ivory’ to include related materials, such as whale's bone and morse ivory. 1992 Yale French Stud. No. 81. 13 The morse (walrus), an aquatic mammal of the same order as the seal. †2. A hippopotamus. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Hippopotamidae > hippopotamus, amphibiusi, or hippo hippopotamusa1398 water horsea1398 river horse1583 seahorse1600 sea-ox1600 morse1703 sea-cow1731 hippo1850 1703 Athenian Oracle II. 476/2 The Behemoth is the Hippopotamus, the Sea-Horse, River-Horse, or Morse. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Morse, the hippopotamus, the river horse. 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Morse teeth, a name given to the teeth of the hippopotamus used for making artificial teeth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Morsen.³ Brit. /mɔːs/, U.S. /mɔrs/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Morse. Etymology: < the name of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872), U.S. painter and electrician, who invented this type of electric telegraph and the code to be used on it. Telegraphy. I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating the electric telegraph system invented by Morse or things relating to it, esp. equipment and apparatus involved in the transmission of Morse code. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [adjective] > Morse Morse1849 1846 Commerc. Rev. South & West Feb. 133 (heading) Morse's Electro-magnetic Telegraph. 1847 ‘Peter Progress’ Electr. Telegr. 63 Morse's Telegraph. This variety of the Electric Telegraph is employed on all the American lines.] 1849 Sci. Amer. Dec. 109 In a recent suit against Henry O'Reilly for an infringement of the Morse telegraph patent,..Judge McLean decided that the Morse patent was null and void. 1853 De Bow's Rev. Feb. 187/2 Mr. Shaffner..proceeded to negotiate with the patentees of the Morse telegraph... The first Morse section..was constructed by these gentlemen, alongside of a rival line built at the same time. 1860 G. B. Prescott Electr. Telegr. iii. v. 73 Electric telegraph apparatus. The Morse system. 1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 149 The Morse recorder. 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 105 It is an exceedingly rare thing to fix more than four stations on one Morse circuit. 1898 R. Kerr Wireless Telegr. 93 The Morse inker. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 957/2 A complete system of signalling by night and day on the Morse system is worked by the police. 1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xliv. 713 The receiving Morse instrument indicates the arrival of the signals. 1997 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 13 July Recruits will no longer be trained to operate the Morse buttons by which messages could be flashed to other ships. 2. a. Morse alphabet n. the set of signals or symbols used to represent letters in Morse code. ΚΠ 1852 E. Highton Electr. Telegr. 63 The following represents Professor Morse's alphabet, composed..of long and short marks.] 1858 E. E. Hale If, Yes & Perhaps (1868) 119 It is not the business simply of ‘operators’ in telegraphic dens to know this Morse alphabet. 1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 90 The Morse alphabet. 1881 Harper's Mag. Oct. 712/2 The receiving operator listens to the note of the fork that sings with it, and the notes appear as the letters of the Morse alphabet. 1942 V.D. (title) The Morse alphabet. How to learn it quickly. A new method for beginners. 1961 Man 61 27/1 From very early times information has been conveyed in a two-state code (cf. the bush telegraph or the Morse alphabet). b. Morse key n. a key forming part of the Morse telegraph apparatus, which is pressed and released to send signals in Morse code. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > transmitter > key telegraph key1848 Morse key1858 tapper1876 1858 in G. B. Prescott Hist. Electr. Telegraph (1860) xiv. 191 We work with Morse key and detector. 1898 R. Kerr Wireless Telegr. 97 A small Morse key. 1918 W. H. Eccles Wireless Telegr. & Teleph. (ed. 2) 247 When the high voltage in the repeat side does not exceed 100 or 200 volts it is easy to interrupt that circuit by aid of a morse key. 1969 W. Mitford Lovely She Goes! xi. 56 A tense Sparks stood by the morse key ready to call for help. 1984 N. Guild Berlin Warning (1985) ii. 22 She had learned to..tap out gibberish on a Morse key. c. Morse code n. a code devised by Morse for use with the electric telegraph, in which the letters are represented by combinations of long and short electrical signals represented audibly or visually, or by long and short flashes of light or (in writing) dashes and dots.The code was first used in conjunction with the Morse telegraph to send signals across land via a telegraph wire, esp. by railway companies in the United States. The code was slightly adapted in Europe for simplicity, so that all letters were represented by patterns of short and long signals of fixed duration (certain letters in the original code were represented by patterns of dots and spaces or of dashes of varying length). In this form it became widely used for sending messages to and from ships at sea, esp. by radiotelegraphy. During the 20th cent. the use of the code to send messages across land gradually died out as the use of teleprinters became widespread, and it was eventually used chiefly to send distress signals from ships (as the message ‘SOS’, easily transmitted in Morse code), but this use has now been largely abandoned, superseded by newer systems of radio communication, notably the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > code > Morse code Morse code1867 Morse1876 iddy-umpty1906 1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 87 The Morse Code. 1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 15/2 The waves written by the syphon above the central line corresponding to the dots of the Morse Code. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xx. 268 The sound was regular and concerted—dot, dash, dot—dash, dot, dot…the longs and shorts of the Morse Code. 1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday 13 A mechanically inclined boy has a wireless set, with which, if he knows the Morse code, he may listen to messages from ships at sea. 1972 V. Pitt First Look at Signals 38 The most famous distress signal is S.O.S... It may be tapped out in Morse Code. 1990 D. Ackerman Nat. Hist. Senses p. xvii A woman sits at a telegraph key and rattles Morse code along a wire. The dots and dashes..combine in elaborate ways to make their messages clear. 1993 E. Iverem Time i. 24 Night bugs sound electric clicking a morse code about omega. II. Simple uses. †3. The Morse electric telegraph. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs telegraph register1845 Morse1867 recorder1867 nicker1871 ink-writer1876 inker1882 ticker1883 news ticker1887 tape-machine1891 synchronograph1897 tape-ticker1904 undulator1910 reperforator1913 1867 R. Sabine Electr. Telegr. 86 Embossing Instrument with movable Magnet. This is a construction of the Morse by Messrs. Siemens and Halske. 4. Morse code. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > code > Morse code Morse code1867 Morse1876 iddy-umpty1906 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 105 In England we never do use the Morse on such circuits. 1952 E. J. Pratt Towards Last Spike 28 A cable started rolling mills in Europe: A tap of Morse sent hundreds to the bush, Where axes swung on spruce and the saws sang. 1958 I. Fleming Dr. No vii. 85 The fireflies, the ‘blink-a-blinks’, as Quarrel called them, came out and began flashing their sexual morse. 1988 Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 1/2 The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) will be introduced in 1993—from which time Morse will no longer be a requirement for ships at sea. 1990 E. Boland Outside Hist. in Coll. Poems (1995) 156 This river which moments ago must have flashed the morse of a bayonet thrust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Morsen.⁴ Brit. /mɔːs/, U.S. /mɔrs/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Morse. Etymology: < the name of Philip McCord Morse (1903–85), U.S. physicist, who proposed the equation (1929 in Physical Rev. 34 58). Physical Chemistry. attributive and in the genitive, esp. in Morse equation, Morse potential. Designating or relating to the potential energy of a two-atom molecule as a function of the distance between the atoms, as given by the formula V = D_e {1 − e^−a(R−Re)}², where D_e is the depth of the potential energy minimum, R the distance between the atomic nuclei, and R_e the equilibrium bond length of the molecule, at which potential energy is lowest. ΚΠ 1929 Physical Rev. 34 448 The original justification for supposing that Morse's potential function..would fit the facts adequately for HCL was that the energy level formula given by Morse is of the right form. 1930 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 130 106 For hydrogen, unfortunately, the inaccuracy of U curves drawn from the Morse formula is probably appreciable. 1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. viii. 574 This weakness of the Morse function is not serious, because the conditions under which the internuclear distance approaches zero are of no practical significance. 1972 C. H. DePuy & O. L. Chapman Molecular Reactions & Photochem. i. 1 This can be illustrated most simply for a diatomic molecule by means of a Morse curve. 1986 M. Rigby et al. Forces between Molecules iii. 67 Another potential energy function for which an exact solution of the Schrödinger equation is possible is the Morse potential. 1998 Chem. Physics (Electronic text) 223 229 Assuming the potential surface of a cesium dimer [Cs₂], which is modeled by a Morse potential.., we calculated the third- and fifth-order response functions for various temperatures and heat-bath couplings. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Morsev. Brit. /mɔːs/, U.S. /mɔrs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Morse n.³ Etymology: < Morse n.³ Telegraphy. intransitive and transitive. To signal using Morse code. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > make signals [verb (intransitive)] > signal by morse Morse1906 society > communication > indication > signalling > signal (something) [verb (transitive)] > signal by morse Morse1906 1906 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Jan. 232/2 Ah! now she's Morsing against the fog. 1920 Punch 31 Mar. 245/1 It can be used for Morsing instructions about breakfast to the cook. 1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 534 Sudden load changes of 18 kw. (29 h.p. at 85 per cent. efficiency) could be thrown on and off the engine by violently ‘morsing’ the switch on the load panel without upsetting stability. 1963 M. Lowry Ultramarine (rev. ed.) vi. 275 There she goes, she's morseing her name. 1999 Arena (Nexis) 1 Dec. 29 She morsed distress, and ten days later..landed in Darwin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1404n.²1482n.³1849n.⁴1929v.1906
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