English noun: telephone set |
1. | telephone set (artifact) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds |
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| Samples | I talked to him on the telephone.
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| Synonyms | phone, telephone |
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| Broader (hypernym) | electronic equipment |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | desk phone, dial phone, dial telephone, extension, extension phone, French telephone, handset, pay-phone, pay-station, radiophone, radiotelephone, speakerphone, telephone extension, wireless telephone |
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| Part holonym | mouthpiece, receiver, telephone receiver |
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| Part meronym | phone system, telephone system |
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