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heliograph
/ˈhiː.li.əˌɡɹæf/
noun 5verb 3
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4ADJ.
above
VERB + HELIOGRAPH
rock, sparkle
HELIOGRAPH + NOUN
cities, ere
PREP.
on, with
Definitions
noun
1
An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, / And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, / To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught / His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught. / And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair; / So Cupid and Apollo linked, per heliograph, the pair.
It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
2
A heliogram.
3
An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
4
A device for photographing the sun.
5
A photograph.
verb
1
To send a message by heliograph.
With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife / Some interesting details of the General's private life.
2
To send a heliograph.
3
To photograph by sunlight.
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Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, / And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, / To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught / His wife
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It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
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when we stood up at nightfall we saw, in the sunset, the sparkle of the heliograph above cities, on the far side of the horizon.
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With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife / Some interesting details of the General's private life.
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