stenograph

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to write down or report speech rapidly in shorthand

   Mina hoped to stenograph the dictated letter and transcribe it that evening.

2. 2
   noun

   a machine used to record speech in shorthand symbols, especially an early stenotype machine

   The court reporter carried a portable stenograph into the hearing room.

3. 3
   noun

   a shorthand character, passage, or other piece of writing produced by stenography

   Only a trained clerk could read the dense stenograph in the notebook.

Formed from steno-, from Greek stenos, 'narrow or compressed,' and -graph, 'something written or an instrument that records.' The elements describe compressed writing; the verb was also reinforced as a back-formation from stenographer.

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