tele-, tel-, telo-, -telic, -telical
(Greek: far away, far off, at a distance)
Don't confuse this tele- with the teleo- unit that means "end, last".
1. Someone who has the power of extrasensory perception; mind reader: Tom thought his girlfriend was a telepathist because she usually knew what he was thinking without asking at all!
2. An individual who appeares to read the thoughts of another person: Steven knew a magician who was a telepathist and seemed to know the thoughts of others, normally by having an assistant who gave him clever signs or cues.
2. An individual who appeares to read the thoughts of another person: Steven knew a magician who was a telepathist and seemed to know the thoughts of others, normally by having an assistant who gave him clever signs or cues.
1. Communication directly from one person's mind to another's without speech, writing, or other typical signs or symbols: "You must have been reading my mind,” Ruth said to her sister Holly on the phone. “I was just about to call you and then the phone rang and you were there! This must be an instance of telepathy!”
2. The ability to connect directly by psychic means with others via thoughts, feelings, or emotions at a distance without using normal sensations: June couldn’t explain why, but she had a definite sense that her twin brother, who lived about 1,000 miles away, needed her help and wanted her to come. She had heard about such communication by extrasensory means and decided this had to be telepathy.
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2. The ability to connect directly by psychic means with others via thoughts, feelings, or emotions at a distance without using normal sensations: June couldn’t explain why, but she had a definite sense that her twin brother, who lived about 1,000 miles away, needed her help and wanted her to come. She had heard about such communication by extrasensory means and decided this had to be telepathy.
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telepatist
telephanous
Visible from a distance.
telephone, telephoned
1. An apparatus for reproducing sound, especially that of the voice, at a great distance, by means of electricity; consisting, like the electric telegraph, of transmitting and receiving instruments connected by a line or wire which conveys the electric current.
2. An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals.
2. An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals.
telephonic
Transmitting, or relating to the transmission of, sound to a distance.
telephonically
1. Of or relating to telephones.
2. Transmitted or conveyed by telephone.
2. Transmitted or conveyed by telephone.
telephoning
The act of using the telephone.
A abnormal or irrational reluctance of using the telephone: Ned, suffering from telephonophobia, avoided answering the phone because he was afraid of being criticized, being talked into buying something, being judged, or having to speak on the answering machine.
telephony
1. The transmission of sound between distant stations, especially by radio or telephone.
2. The technology and manufacture of telephone equipment.
2. The technology and manufacture of telephone equipment.
telephoto
Producing a large image of a distant object.
telephotograph
1. A telephoto, or a picture, taken at a distance from the object.
2. A photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography.
2. A photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography.
telephotographic
1. A reference to a photograph made with a telephoto lens.
2. That which has been transmitted by telephotography.
2. That which has been transmitted by telephotography.
telephotography
1. The reproduction of pictures or scenes at a distance by means of an electric current as in the telegraph and telephone; telephoty; phototelegraphy.
2. The photographing of distant objects with the use of special lenses or electronic equipment.
3. The transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance.
2. The photographing of distant objects with the use of special lenses or electronic equipment.
3. The transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance.
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