| 单词 | telephone |
| 释义 | telephone (once / 148 pages) nv A telephone is an electronic device that you use for conversations over great distances. Telephones used to be fixed to walls and connected by cables, but now most people have cellular telephones, known as cell phones or mobiles. A telephone takes sound waves, converts it into electronic signals, and then converts that back into sound waves — pretty neat. Early telephones frightened people because it seemed spooky that someone not in the room (or even the country) could speak to you, but nowadays distant communication seems perfectly normal. If your mother asks you to telephone her, she wants you to give her a call. The word comes from the Greek words for "afar" (tele-) and "voice"(phone). WORD FAMILYtelephone: telephoned, telephoner, telephones, telephoning+/telephoner: telephoners USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Mills likes to call her a mix of “Amelia Earhart and Humphrey Bogart — but more Humphrey Bogart,” he said in a telephone interview. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “There is nothing good about the whole era,” Slusser said in a telephone interview. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Herzog said Monday by hospital telephone that he is being treated for a collapsed lung. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n 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|Hypo|Hyper phone, telephone set desk phone a telephone set that sits on a desk or table dial phone, dial telephonea telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called extension, extension phone, telephone extensionan additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line French telephone, handsettelephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle pay-phone, pay-stationa coin-operated telephone radiophone, radiotelephone, wireless telephonea telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables speakerphonea telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time cell, cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phonea hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver electronic equipment equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor) 2n transmitting speech at a distance Syn|Hypo|Hyper telephony voice mail, voicemail a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed call, phone call, telephone calla telephone connection call forwardinglets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct call waitinga way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone call-backa return call collect calla telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for call-ina telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program crank calla hostile telephone call (from a crank) local calla telephone call made within a local calling area long distance, long-distance call, trunk calla telephone call made outside the local calling area conference calla telephone call in which more than two people participate wake-up calla telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels) telecom, telecommunication (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically 3v get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone Syn|Hypo|Hyper call, call up, phone, ring call send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message cell phone call up by using a cellular phone call inmake a phone call telecommunicate communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail |
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