[
UK
/tˈɛlɪfˌəʊn/
]
[ US /ˈtɛɫəˌfoʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛɫəˌfoʊn/ ]
NOUN
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electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
I talked to him on the telephone - transmitting speech at a distance
VERB
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get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
I tried to call you all night
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
How To Use telephone In A Sentence
- The report, which was based upon conversations with children who telephoned helplines, also claimed that the hidden problem of solvent abuse kills more children than drugs every year.
- Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
- She told the children to pipe down while she was talking on the telephone.
- I had just popped out for a breath of fresh air,and missed your telephone call.
- A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
- A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
- Hula hoops and pet rocks were fads; personal computers and cellular telephones are trends that are changing the way people live.
- Now the postrider was to the people of Revolutionary days what the telegraph or the telephone is to us today. Caesar Rodney's Ride
- This includes such items as telephones, radios, televisions and recording devices.
- Mrs White can't come to the telephone - she's serving a customer.