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telephone
has definitions from the fields of electronics,telecommunications
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[ noun ] (electronics,telecommunications) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
Synonyms Examples "I talked to him on the telephone" Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)These must have been for local_calls strictly , as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C._B._Carleton 's to Young 's shoe_store . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)The first shrill ring of the telephone brought Harold out into the hall . He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was . The telephone was in the study but the ringing came from the hall . Between the telephone and the wall_plug there was sixty feet of cord , and when the conversation came to an end , Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment , to his bathroom , where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub . |
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[ verb ] (telecommunications) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
Examples "I tried to call you all night" "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)A_couple_of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied_Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake '' . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Early the next morning , a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso_Chavez , one of the posse members , was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father 's home on the upper Vermejo . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)The night before , they had telephoned the Andrus_maid , Selena_Masters , and she had arrived early , bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Mrs._Pastern had telephoned most of her neighbors in_advance , and most of them were ready for her . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (telecommunications) transmitting speech at a distance
Synonyms Used in print ("Editorials"...)`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf_Coast '' , the account reads , `` they can count_on heavy opposition from a group of commando trained telephone employees - all girls . Related terms telecommunication call call_forwarding call_waiting call dial call_in hang_on cell_phone call |
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