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• n  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
• n  transmitting speech at a distance
• v  get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

• And once his telephone lines were reconnected, an irate Khan opened up to news media, denouncing Musharraf for forcing him to make the tearful confession on TV in which he took .
• Then came the telephone crisis: Last weekend, Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze minority and an archenemy of Hizballah, accused the militant Shi'ite party of maintaining .
• They are a part of the VOIP (voice-over-Internet protocol) movement that is redefining the way telephone calls are made.

• phone
• telephone set
• telephony
• call
• call up
• ring

News & Articles

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• Telephone Counseling Can Aid Recovery After Breast Cancer
  New research suggests telephone-based counseling, when combined with physician advice, can help breast cancer survivors with their recovery. Investigators determined the telephonic counseling helps women become more physically active, improving quality of life and lessening the side effects of cancer treatment. Investigators discovered that women who received exercise advice from their surgeon ...
  June 13, 2013 - Psych Central
• RTD opens northwest commuting study with telephone town hall
  A telephone town hall next week will launch a long-range study of the transportation needs of the northwest Denver suburbs.
  June 13, 2013 - Denver Post
• Telephone counseling plus physician advice key to motivating breast cancer survivors to exercise
  ( Lifespan ) Miriam Hospital researchers say telephone-based counseling, when combined with physician advice, can help breast cancer survivors become more physically active, improving quality of life and lessening the side effects of cancer treatment.
  June 11, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Percy Downe in Vancouver Sun
  It is time to start enforcing the rules, collect the fines and put a stop once and for all to these unwanted telephone calls,said Downe.
• Ronald Noble in International Herald Tribune
  We have received not one name, not one fingerprint, not one telephone number, not one address, nothing, from the UK, about the recent thwarted terrorist attacks,Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble said in an interview with British...