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单词 switchboard
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Definition of switchboard in English:

switchboard

noun ˈswɪtʃbɔːdˈswɪtʃbɔrd
  • 1An installation for the manual control of telephone connections in an office, hotel, or other large building.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Remember when the telephone industry had switchboards and operators?
    • Callers jammed the switchboards of radio stations to express their shock at the fall from grace of a national hero after the news broke yesterday morning.
    • Extra personnel were dispatched to the switchboard, and nonessential telephone calls were rerouted to voice mail boxes.
    • Callers were unable to get through to one of North Yorkshire Police's main switchboards when its telephone system was plunged into ‘chaos’ at the weekend.
    • On the plus side, the system worked despite the switchboard and office phone system.
    • As manual switchboards were phased out after World War II, we started moving from analog to digital telephony.
    • This brief account leaves the impression that the central nervous system is little more than a set of cables running up and down, with something akin to a telephone switchboard in between.
    • During WW I field telephones and switchboards were developed.
    • As well as improvements to messes, major works included installation of new switchboards, an improved stern door, removal and cleaning of both propellers, hull survey work and the addition of tank deck drains.
    • Last year the traffic on international telephone switchboards topped 100 billion for the first time.
    • The paper also quoted an unnamed American contractor who had prepared a bid to install telephone switchboards at the Qatar base.
    • I think she still believes there are ladies with headsets and twinsets plugging away at switchboards.
    • That's where the workers were, that's where the telephone switchboard was, that's where the suppliers were.
    • The devices were intended to tap phone lines used by the various governments, and were reportedly installed at the building's switchboard.
    • The tactical network consisted of satellite terminals, telephone switchboards and data network operation equipment.
    • I was asked to work through to operate the telephone switchboard, and she was certainly very busy making dozens of calls.
    • He actually worked in the centre of Birmingham on the emergency telephone switchboard.
    • Had the switchboard at the hotel connected her to the wrong room?
    • By 1887 there were 26,000 telephones in use in Britain (and 150,000 in the United States) and multiple switchboards had been installed in most major towns and cities.
    • They jammed telephone switchboards or left town, many just huddled on their front lawns in a state of fear, resignation or hysteria.
  • 2An apparatus for varying connections between electric circuits in other applications.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sailors in HMS Argyll have been praised for their quick response when a fire was discovered in the frigate's forward electrical switchboard.
    • Switchgear or switchboards can be used as the distribution and overcurrent protection for the system.
 
 

Definition of switchboard in US English:

switchboard

nounˈswɪtʃbɔrdˈswiCHbôrd
  • 1An installation for the manual control of telephone connections in an office, hotel, or other large building.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Last year the traffic on international telephone switchboards topped 100 billion for the first time.
    • That's where the workers were, that's where the telephone switchboard was, that's where the suppliers were.
    • Extra personnel were dispatched to the switchboard, and nonessential telephone calls were rerouted to voice mail boxes.
    • I think she still believes there are ladies with headsets and twinsets plugging away at switchboards.
    • The paper also quoted an unnamed American contractor who had prepared a bid to install telephone switchboards at the Qatar base.
    • They jammed telephone switchboards or left town, many just huddled on their front lawns in a state of fear, resignation or hysteria.
    • During WW I field telephones and switchboards were developed.
    • Had the switchboard at the hotel connected her to the wrong room?
    • He actually worked in the centre of Birmingham on the emergency telephone switchboard.
    • By 1887 there were 26,000 telephones in use in Britain (and 150,000 in the United States) and multiple switchboards had been installed in most major towns and cities.
    • The tactical network consisted of satellite terminals, telephone switchboards and data network operation equipment.
    • On the plus side, the system worked despite the switchboard and office phone system.
    • I was asked to work through to operate the telephone switchboard, and she was certainly very busy making dozens of calls.
    • Callers jammed the switchboards of radio stations to express their shock at the fall from grace of a national hero after the news broke yesterday morning.
    • The devices were intended to tap phone lines used by the various governments, and were reportedly installed at the building's switchboard.
    • This brief account leaves the impression that the central nervous system is little more than a set of cables running up and down, with something akin to a telephone switchboard in between.
    • Remember when the telephone industry had switchboards and operators?
    • Callers were unable to get through to one of North Yorkshire Police's main switchboards when its telephone system was plunged into ‘chaos’ at the weekend.
    • As manual switchboards were phased out after World War II, we started moving from analog to digital telephony.
    • As well as improvements to messes, major works included installation of new switchboards, an improved stern door, removal and cleaning of both propellers, hull survey work and the addition of tank deck drains.
    1. 1.1
      another term for helpline
    2. 1.2 An apparatus for varying connections between electric circuits in other applications.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Switchgear or switchboards can be used as the distribution and overcurrent protection for the system.
      • Sailors in HMS Argyll have been praised for their quick response when a fire was discovered in the frigate's forward electrical switchboard.
 
 
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