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Meaning of "airgraph" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AIRGRAPH

airgraph  [ˈɛəˌɡrɑːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AIRGRAPH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Airgraph is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AIRGRAPH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

V-mail

V-mail, short for Victory Mail, is a hybrid mail process used during the Second World War in America as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the logistics of transferring an original letter across the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and printed back to paper upon arrival at its destination. The V-mail process is based on the earlier British Airgraph process.

Definition of airgraph in the English dictionary

The definition of airgraph in the dictionary is a system devised by Kodak in the Second World War in which letters were photographed in miniature and sent by airmail, a letter sent in this way.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AIRGRAPH


autograph
ˈɔːtəˌɡrɑːf
biograph
ˈbaɪəˌɡrɑːf
chromatograph
krəˈmætəˌɡrɑːf
chromolithograph
ˌkrəʊməʊˈlɪθəˌɡrɑːf
chronograph
ˈkrɒnəˌɡrɑːf
cinematograph
ˌsɪnɪˈmætəˌɡrɑːf
hydrograph
ˈhaɪdrəˌɡrɑːf
lithograph
ˈlɪθəˌɡrɑːf
Mimeograph
ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf
monograph
ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑːf
pantagraph
ˈpæntəˌɡrɑːf
pantograph
ˈpæntəˌɡrɑːf
paragraph
ˈpærəˌɡrɑːf
phonograph
ˈfəʊnəˌɡrɑːf
photograph
ˈfəʊtəˌɡrɑːf
photomicrograph
ˌfəʊtəʊˈmaɪkrəˌɡrɑːf
pictograph
ˈpɪktəˌɡrɑːf
seismograph
ˈsaɪzməˌɡrɑːf
spirograph
ˈspaɪrəˌɡrɑːf
typograph
ˈtaɪpəˌɡrɑːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AIRGRAPH

airer
airfare
airfield
airflow
airfoil
airforce base
airframe
airfreight
airgap
airglow
airhead
airhole
airier
airiest
airily
airiness
airing
airing cupboard
airless
airlessness

WORDS THAT END LIKE AIRGRAPH

bar graph
cerograph
choreograph
color photograph
colour photograph
digraph
electrocardiograph
electron micrograph
graph
hectograph
holograph
ideograph
micrograph
polygraph
radiograph
seraph
spectrograph
stereograph
subgraph
subparagraph
telegraph

Synonyms and antonyms of airgraph in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «airgraph» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AIRGRAPH

Find out the translation of airgraph to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of airgraph from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «airgraph» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

airgraph
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

airgraph
570 millions of speakers

English

airgraph
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

airgraph
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

airgraph
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

airgraph
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

airgraph
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

airgraph
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Airgraph
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Airgraph
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Airgraph
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

airgraph
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

airgraph
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Airgraph
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

airgraph
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

airgraph
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Airgraph
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikrofilm şeklindeki mektup
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

airgraph
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

airgraph
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

airgraph
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

airgraph
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

airgraph
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

airgraph
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

airgraph
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

airgraph
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of airgraph

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AIRGRAPH»

The term «airgraph» is used very little and occupies the 180.906 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AIRGRAPH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «airgraph» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «airgraph» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about airgraph

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AIRGRAPH»

Discover the use of airgraph in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to airgraph and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Airgraph: A Detailed Handbook on the Airgraph with ...
Aerophilatelie ; Frankokuvert, Frankoumschlag, Streifband, Ganzsachenbrief ; British Commonwealth.
E. H. Keeton, 1987
2
History of Air Cargo and Airmail from the 18th Century
All of the Post Offices in the Commonwealth encouraged their customers to use Airgraph messages, although they did not guarantee any confidentiality in their correspondence, ' in preference to normal airmail which had become unreliable,  ...
Camille Allaz, 2005
3
Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign: The Eighth ...
The question of mail became so important to morale that the matter provoked debate in the House of Commons.75 The government reacted by instigating the airgraph service, between Britain and the Middle East, in August 1941. The airgraph ...
Jonathan Fennell, 2011
4
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
airgraph. to. Christopher. Tolkien. 5 April 1944 (FS14) I have seriously embarked onan effort to finish my book, & have been sitting up rather late: a lot of re-reading and research required. Andit is a painfulsticky business gettingintoswing again ...
Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien, 2014
5
Family Christmas in the 1940s and 50s
My dad couldn't spend Christmas with us because he was a soldier in the army Most other families had relatives away from home, too. We sent my dad a Christmas card and my mum wrote him a letter on an airgraph form, which was specially ...
Faye Gardner, Jennifer Collins, 2007
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
... the original mistake.” On 4 September he announced in addition that he had completely rewritten chapter 17, which duly arrived. I hope I may quote a fuller sample of the type of letters which arrived so frequently: In my typed airgraph oftoday ...
Karl Raimund Popper, Václav Havel, Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, 2011
7
Popular Photography - ND
IN man, 1941, under the trademark "Airgraph,” England first employed the system to solve the problem of getting mail to and from the forces in the Near East. The Airgraph System was expanded until it knits the British Empire together with ...
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LIFE
In April, 1941, under the trademark "Airgraph," England first employed the system to solve the problem of getting mail to and from the forces in the Near East. The Airgraph System was gradually expanded until it knits the British Empire together  ...
9
The Open Society and Its Enemies
On 4 September he announced in addition that he had completely rewritten chapter 17, which duly arrived. I hope I may quote a fuller sample of the type of letters which arrived so frequently: In my typed airgraph oftoday, I mentioned that, as far ...
Karl Sir Popper, 2012
10
Just A Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the ...
Your airgraph to me arrived May 7—also the one to Vivien. We agreed in thinking that you were quite needlessly disturbed over the possibility of Bill's hearing the news of his father. He never sees the Wilkinsons or Mrs. Bland—except to say ...
Mary F. Williamson, Tom Sharp, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AIRGRAPH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term airgraph is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Thinking of you... during World War Two
The message was sent by airgraph service, a method of getting messages from servicemen home during the Second World War using ... «The Northern Echo, Feb 14»
2
War poet's letters found in drawer left to Exeter University
In a 1942 airgraph responding to news of his daughter's birth, Jarmain writes to his wife: “My Dearest, Your cable reached me this evening, ... «Exeter Express and Echo, Nov 13»
3
Staying in touch with the home front: BYOD in the US military
Based on the earlier British Airgraph process, V-mail correspondence started out on small letter sheets that would be censored, photographed, ... «ZDNet, Jan 13»
4
Smithsonian Snapshot: V-Mail Stationery, 1942
The U.S. adapted Great Britain's Airgraph service and integrated microfilm technology into its wartime system. V-Mail letters were copied onto ... «Newswise, Jun 12»
5
WW2 readers' memories: my time in the WAAF
I would receive an occasional airgraph letter from George who, I finally learned, had been one of the last people to leave the Dunkirk beaches. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 09»

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