| 单词 | key phone |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskey phone key phone n. a telephone operated by means of buttons on a keypad rather than a dial; (now) spec. one of several such phones forming an interconnected system in a business, etc.; = key telephone n.; frequently attributive, esp. in key phone system. ΚΠ 1958 Pop. Sci. Sept. 140/1 After experience with key phones, over 99 in 100 prefer them to dial phones. 1972 Oxf. Times 28 Apr. 5/8 The Oxford area will be getting keyphones—with pushbuttons instead of a rotating dial—next year. 1986 G. Langley Telecommunications Primer (ed. 2) xvi. 44 Intelligence is distributed out to the telephones themselves; they have to be able to do more than just dial out digits. This was the origin of the keyphone system. 2000 R. Grigonis Computer Teleph. Encycl. 306/1 You can hang off a PC, fax machine or other analog devices from your key phone. 2008 National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada) (Nexis) 8 Dec. fp4 The key phone systems most small businesses use today. < as lemmas |
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