telephone

Definition

Examples

Please answer the telephone within three rings when you are at the front desk.

Word Family

Synonyms

• phoneelectronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
• handsettelephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
• cellphonea hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Collocations

• Easy answer the telephone
  to answer the telephone, meaning to react verbally
• Medium conduct a telephone interview with applicants
  to organize and carry out regarding a telephone interview with applicants
• Hard recorded telephone conference accepted as legal evidence
  to recorded telephone conference accepted as legal evidence, meaning to make a record of; set down in permanent form
• Very Hard game of telephone distorting executive directives
  to game of telephone distorting executive directives, meaning to place a bet on