| 单词 | house phone |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse phone house phone n. (a) a telephone in a residence, as opposed to one in a business, workplace, etc., or (in recent use) a mobile phone; (b) a phone used for internal calls only, typically in a hotel or apartment building. ΚΠ 1896 Arena 16 646 (table) Yearly Rates. House Phone. Business Phone. 1908 S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty ix. 137 There was no answer to the call on the house 'phone. 1935 Archit. Rev. 78 73 Raymond McGrath designed standard signal lights, clocks, buzzer and house-phone mountings. 1970 ‘W. Haggard’ Hardliners i. 11 There was a house-phone on the impressive desk. 1990 H. Engel Dead & Buried (1991) xxvii. 245 He walked over to a house phone and picked it up. I backed away. 2010 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 29 Apr. 34 I have a mobile and rarely use it... I use my house phone to contact anyone. < as lemmas |
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