Dictionary entry

Telex

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɛks/

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛlɛks/

Myanmar Meaning

တဲလက် ၊ သံကြိုးရိုက်စနစ်။ တဲလက်စ်ဖြင့် ပေးပို့ ဆက်သွယ်သည်။

Definition

telex /'teleks/ n (က) [U] တယ္လက္႐ိုက္စက္ျဖင့္ ဖုန္းလိုင္းမွတစ္ဆင့္ စာေပးပို႔လက္ခံႏိုင္ေသာ စနစ္။ (ခ) [C] ယင္းသို႔ေပးပို႔ရရိွေသာစာ။ Several telexes arrived this morning. (ဂ) [C] ( infml ) တယ္လက္စက္။ v ~ sth (to sb) တယ္လက္ျဖင့္ ဆက္သြယ္သည္။

Examples

  1. ‘The hotel's 24-hour business centre is on the lobby level and has photocopying
  2. translation
  3. fax
  4. telex
  5. computer word processing and courier services.’
  6. ‘Telephone
  7. pager
  8. and cellular phone services are available.’
  9. ‘Transactions are generally concluded over the telephone and confirmed by telex or e-mail between buyers and sellers across whatever distance.’
  10. ‘The race for news started to accelerate in the 60s and 70s when news providers started to disseminate information globally by telex.’
  11. ‘Then came telex
  12. followed by the fax machine and now the Internet.’
  13. ‘It will additionally support fax
  14. or EDI transmissions…’
  15. ‘The decision was notified to Mr Smith in London
  16. by telex dated 19th November
  17. on the basis that it would be what was described as ‘a one time transaction’.’
  18. ‘Signature is a typical form of authentication but there may be other avenues such as a PIN
  19. a so-called electronic signature
  20. tested telex
  21. or SWIFT message.’
  22. ‘The first of the telex exchanges which led to the London contract included in clause 8 provision that payment should be ‘without discount
  23. withholding or setoff’.’
  24. ‘Thinking that he knew what was going on at the front - that the radio
  25. teletype
  26. and telex were giving him up-to-the-minute reports - Hitler would send detailed orders.’
  27. ‘It featured a high density of interaction
  28. not least through the secure telex network.’
  29. ‘The party invoking force majeur
  30. shall give prompt notice to the other party by fax
  31. telex followed by registered letter stating the kind of Force Majeure.’
  32. ‘And he couldn't receive information over the sat phone because he couldn't talk
  33. so he communicated via telex and received instructions.’
  34. ‘Traffic around the telex network had grown from an initial 2
  35. 000-3
  36. 000 telegrams a year to some 9
  37. 000 in 1989.’
  38. ‘Since the notice here was tendered by telex
  39. we do not know the form of the acceptance.’
  40. ‘As late as the 1980s we were forced to return to Managua or Luanda or some other relatively peaceful place in order to reach a telex machine
  41. a telephone line or a satellite dish.’
  42. ‘We had to rely upon faxes and the old telex machine
  43. and telephone calls at different times through different time zones.’
  44. ‘Ancient telex machines lie defunct
  45. the lobby floors often stink of petrol - used as a cheap detergent - and windows still have anti-bomb tape on them.’
  46. ‘The telex machine in the plant's foreign trade office was buzzing with communications from companies in Europe
  47. America and the Far East.’
  48. ‘In a forgotten warehouse
  49. 500 telex machines were discovered which had been bought by the previous Chilean government but left unused because nobody knew what to do with them.’