STENOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stenograph mean? 

• STENOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun STENOGRAPH has 2 senses:

1. a shorthand character

2. a machine for typewriting shorthand characters

  Familiarity information: STENOGRAPH used as a noun is rare.

• STENOGRAPH (verb)
  The verb STENOGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. write in shorthand

  Familiarity information: STENOGRAPH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STENOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shorthand character

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stenograph" is a kind of...):

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A machine for typewriting shorthand characters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stenograph" is a kind of...):

typewriter (hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time)

• STENOGRAPH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write in shorthand

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The students were able to stenograph and record the conversation

Hypernyms (to "stenograph" is one way to...):

write (mark or trace on a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he wants to say in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at which also I am practising very hard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)