HELIOGRAPH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

apparatus; setup (equipment designed to serve a specific function)

Derivation:

heliograph (signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays)

Present simple: I / you / we / they heliograph ... he / she / it heliographs

Past simple: heliographed

Past participle: heliographed

-ing form: heliographing

Meaning:

Signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

sign; signal; signalise; signalize (communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

heliograph (an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on)