Meaning

1 senses

  1. Synonym of telefactor.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, "language is fossil poetry".

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  2. If I could draw well, I would paint pictures in "Where is Waldo?"-style, but leave out Waldo.

    deWenn ich gut zeichnen könnte, würde ich Bilder im Stil von "Wo ist Walter?" malen, aber Walter weglassen. — BraveSentry

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Origin

From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the

From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis.

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Forms

plural: waldos / waldoes
Singularwaldo
Pluralwaldos / waldoes

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
telefactormaster-slave manipulatortelemanipulator

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wakefulnesswakenwakeywalewalkA1
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