telephone

What is the Definition of telephone?

Noun:

  1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
  2. transmitting speech at a distance

Verb:

  1. get or try to get into communication (with someone)

How can I use telephone in a sentence?

At that moment the telephone rang and Aunt Petunia went to answer it while Harry and Uncle Vernon watched Dudley unwrap the racing bike, a video camera, a remote control airplane, sixteen new computer games, and a VCR.

He dashed back across the road, hurried up to his office, snapped at his secretary not to disturb him, seized his telephone, and had almost finished dialing his home number when he changed his mind.

While Uncle Vernon made furious telephone calls to the post office and the dairy trying to find someone to complain to, Aunt Petunia shredded the letters in her food processor.

He was ripping the paper off a gold wristwatch when Aunt Petunia came back from the telephone looking both angry and worried.

Then he came back and sat down as though this was as normal as talking on the telephone.


Other meanings of telephone (synonyms, cognates).


ENRU
telephone
  • звонить, телефон, телефонный


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