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See téléphone

English

Image:Dialog gr 1972.jpg|thumb|right|A rotary-dial telephone

Etymology

From French téléphone < Greek τηλέ- (“distant”) + φωνή (“voice”, “sound”).

Noun

  1. An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).


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Verb

  1. To call someone; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Telephone \Tel"e*phone\, v. t.
To convey or announce by telephone.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Telephone \Tel"e*phone\, n. [Gr. ? far off + ? sound.] (Physics)
An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate
speech, at a distance.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The ordinary telephone consists essentially of a device
by which currents of electricity, produced by sounds
through the agency of certain mechanical devices and
exactly corresponding in duration and intensity to the
vibrations of the air which attend them, are
transmitted to a distant station, and there, acting on
suitable mechanism, reproduce similar sounds by
repeating the vibrations. The necessary variations in
the electrical currents are usually produced by means
of a microphone attached to a thin diaphragm upon which
the voice acts, and are intensified by means of an
induction coil. In the magnetic telephone, or
magneto-telephone, the diaphragm is of soft iron placed
close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a
coil of fine wire, and its vibrations produce
corresponding vibrable currents in the wire by
induction. The mechanical, or string, telephone is a
device in which the voice or sound causes vibrations in
a thin diaphragm, which are directly transmitted along
a wire or string connecting it to a similar diaphragm
at the remote station, thus reproducing the sound. It
does not employ electricity.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet telephone
n 1: 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" [syn: phone, telephone set]
2: transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephony]
v : 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" [syn: call, {call
up}, phone, ring]
Moby Dictionary
blower , buzz , call , call box , call up , carbon telephone ,
coin telephone , desk telephone , dial , dial telephone , extension ,
give a ring , handset , hang up , hold the phone , horn , listen in ,
make a call , mouthpiece , pay station , phone , public telephone ,
push-button telephone , radiotelephone , receiver , ring , ring off ,
ring up , telephone booth , telephone engineering ,
telephone extension , telephone mechanics , telephone receiver ,
telephonics , telephony , transmitter , wall telephone ,
wireless telephone


TELEPHONE, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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