Definition of Telephone

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Definition of Telephone
	Telephone An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance. To convey or announce by telephone. Related Definitions: An, Announce, Articulate, At, By, Convey, Distance, Especially, For, Instrument, Or, Speech, Telephone, To

Telephone Quotations

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.
Joan Rivers

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck Palahniuk

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
Lee Trevino

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
Les Paul

Telephone Translations

telephone in Afrikaans is skakel, telefoon
telephone in Danish is telefon
telephone in Dutch is opbellen, telefoneren
telephone in Finnish is puhelin
telephone in German is telefonieren, Telefon, Telephon, Telefon
telephone in Hungarian is telefon
telephone in Italian is telefono
telephone in Norwegian is telefon
telephone in Portuguese is telefone
telephone in Swedish is telefonera, telefon

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