Telephone
noun
A device used to talk to someone far away by converting sound into electrical signals and then back into sound.
I spent an hour on the telephone talking to my friend who lives on the other side of the country.
Often appears as...
- answer the telephone
- hang up the telephone
verb
To call or talk to someone using a telephone.
I telephoned my sister to wish her a happy birthday.
Often appears as...
- telephone somebody
- telephone for help
noun
A device used to talk to someone far away by converting sound into electrical signals and then back into sound.
I spent an hour on the telephone talking to my friend who lives on the other side of the country.
Often appears as...
- answer the telephone
- hang up the telephone
verb
To call or talk to someone using a telephone.
I telephoned my sister to wish her a happy birthday.
Often appears as...
- telephone somebody
- telephone for help
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Noun
Used to describe both the physical device and its function in enabling communication.
Have you seen my telephone? I can't find it anywhere.
Pro Tip 2/3Singular or Plural
Can be used as a singular noun for one device or in plural form when referring to multiple devices.
All the telephones in the office were ringing at once.
Pro Tip 3/3Culturally Ubiquitous
Once a symbol of advancement, now represents an essential part of everyday life.
Even my grandmother relies on her telephone to keep in touch.
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Noun
Used to describe both the physical device and its function in enabling communication.
Have you seen my telephone? I can't find it anywhere.
Pro Tip 2/3Singular or Plural
Can be used as a singular noun for one device or in plural form when referring to multiple devices.
All the telephones in the office were ringing at once.
Pro Tip 3/3Culturally Ubiquitous
Once a symbol of advancement, now represents an essential part of everyday life.
Even my grandmother relies on her telephone to keep in touch.
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Noun
Used to describe both the physical device and its function in enabling communication.
Have you seen my telephone? I can't find it anywhere.
Pro Tip 2/3Singular or Plural
Can be used as a singular noun for one device or in plural form when referring to multiple devices.
All the telephones in the office were ringing at once.
Pro Tip 3/3Culturally Ubiquitous
Once a symbol of advancement, now represents an essential part of everyday life.
Even my grandmother relies on her telephone to keep in touch.
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But the main characteristics of romantic love are an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally. It would be nice to go to bed with them, but you want them to call you on the telephone, to invite you out, etc., to tell you that they love you.
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How to Avoid Surveillance...
What that means is that if the drug dealers' telephone calls or the terrorists' telephone calls can be intercepted, then so can the rest of ours, too. And I think we really need to Should a billion people around the world be using devices that are wiretap friendly?
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How Do Satellites Help...
course the thing is once you've got communication between men on television new things think well why not telephone calls as time progressed of course it went on to data communications and then the internet so sound like Communications was about getting
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Depression, the secret...
And finally one day, I woke up and I thought perhaps I'd had a stroke, because I lay in bed completely frozen, looking at the telephone, thinking, "Something is wrong and I should call for help," and I couldn't reach out my arm
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How do pregnancy tests...
and starts a game of telephone that tells the body not to shed the inner lining of the uterus that month. As the pregnancy progresses, HCG supports the formation of the placenta, which transfers nutrients from mother to fetus.
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Electromagnetism 101 PIPE...
On one end are long, low-frequency radio waves that broadcast television and radio signals, microwaves that carry telephone signals and cook food, and infrared waves emitted by fires. On the other are short, high-frequency
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The hidden meanings of...
it's very yang. Toothpicks are yin compared with a telephone pole. The back of a person is more yang than the front. The top of a person is the yang end. Taoism teaches that there is a power in the universe.
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Science Fiction Inspires...
off a new way to help keep you in shape for the space age vern's sci-fi mission inspired science to reach for the moon back on earth sci-fi turned the telephone into a radical new way to connect
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Controlling time through...
the pen in his hands it fell through his fingers and down to the floor I stood there watching him as my mom ran to find help at that time we didn't own a car and there were no telephones in our
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The Video Chat That...
mobile phones and tablets appeared in sci-fi years before we had them in real life what we've wanted all along is face-to-face contact through a device telephone TV with callers able to see as
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Why we love, why we...
But the main characteristics of romantic love are an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally. It would be nice to go to bed with them, but you want them to call you on the telephone, to invite you out, etc., to tell you that they love you.
Video examples
How to Avoid Surveillance...
What that means is that if the drug dealers' telephone calls or the terrorists' telephone calls can be intercepted, then so can the rest of ours, too. And I think we really need to Should a billion people around the world be using devices that are wiretap friendly?
Video examples
How Do Satellites Help...
course the thing is once you've got communication between men on television new things think well why not telephone calls as time progressed of course it went on to data communications and then the internet so sound like Communications was about getting
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
And finally one day, I woke up and I thought perhaps I'd had a stroke, because I lay in bed completely frozen, looking at the telephone, thinking, "Something is wrong and I should call for help," and I couldn't reach out my arm
Video examples
How do pregnancy tests...
and starts a game of telephone that tells the body not to shed the inner lining of the uterus that month. As the pregnancy progresses, HCG supports the formation of the placenta, which transfers nutrients from mother to fetus.
Video examples
Electromagnetism 101 PIPE...
On one end are long, low-frequency radio waves that broadcast television and radio signals, microwaves that carry telephone signals and cook food, and infrared waves emitted by fires. On the other are short, high-frequency
Video examples
The hidden meanings of...
it's very yang. Toothpicks are yin compared with a telephone pole. The back of a person is more yang than the front. The top of a person is the yang end. Taoism teaches that there is a power in the universe.
Video examples
Science Fiction Inspires...
off a new way to help keep you in shape for the space age vern's sci-fi mission inspired science to reach for the moon back on earth sci-fi turned the telephone into a radical new way to connect
Video examples
Controlling time through...
the pen in his hands it fell through his fingers and down to the floor I stood there watching him as my mom ran to find help at that time we didn't own a car and there were no telephones in our
Video examples
The Video Chat That...
mobile phones and tablets appeared in sci-fi years before we had them in real life what we've wanted all along is face-to-face contact through a device telephone TV with callers able to see as
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Marlon Brando
American Actor
I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.
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David Mamet
American Dramatist
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
American Actress
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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Brian Acton
American Businessman
You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.
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Niklas Zennstrom
Swedish Scientist
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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Ogden Nash
American Poet
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Marlon Brando
American Actor
I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.
Quote examples
David Mamet
American Dramatist
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
Quote examples
Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
Quote examples
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
American Actress
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
Quote examples
Ray Bradbury
American Writer
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Quote examples
Brian Acton
American Businessman
You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.
Quote examples
Niklas Zennstrom
Swedish Scientist
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
Quote examples
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Quote examples
Ogden Nash
American Poet
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Quote examples
Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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