morse
pronunciation
How to pronounce morse in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce morse in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
- United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
Word Origin
- morse
- morse: [19] People had for some years been experimenting with the magnetic telegraph, but it was the American inventor Samuel Morse (1791–1872) who in 1836 produced the first workable system. And with his assistant Alexander Bain he devised a set of dots and dashes representing letters and numbers which could be used for transmitting messages, and which came to be known as the Morse code. In the first half of the 20th century morse was also used as a verb: ‘It can be used for Morsing instructions about breakfast to the cook’, Punch 31 March 1920.
Example
- 1. Mr. morse looked at his wife curiously .
- 2. Richard morse , an american and the current proprietor , is a vodou priest known as an houngan .
- 3. Besides baseball , I got into morse code .
- 4. Morse is used to analyzing figures .
- 5. Look , he 's doing that on purpose.is that morse code ?