Definition of Phone jack

1. Noun. A jack for plugging in a telephone.

Exact synonyms: Telephone Jack
Generic synonyms: Jack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phone Jack

phone book
phone books
phone booth
phone booths
phone box
phone boxes
phone call
phone calls
phone card
phone cards
phone company
phone cord
phone hacking
phone home
phone it in
phone jack (current term)
phone line
phone lines
phone message
phone monkey
phone number
phone numbers
phone plug
phone service
phone survey
phone system
phone tag
phone tapper
phone up

Literary usage of Phone jack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Catalog of National ISDN Solutions for Selected NIUF ApplicationsCom (1993)
"If using NI-1, support for two Directory Numbers (DNs) and Service Profile ID* (SPIDs) will be • Physical interfaces: • Analog phone jack for fax machine. ..."

2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"The only thing in the room was a small box, plugged into the wall, with a network cable snaking away into the phone jack. It had small lights on it, ..."

3. Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 by Stephanie Harvey (1998)
"The location is often determined by the phone jack or the bookshelves. A number of the resources and tools listed here might find a home in the research ..."

4. Adventure Guide by Heather Stimmler-Hall (2004)
"If you want to use your laptop to check e-mail, you'll also need a phone jack adaptor to plug in the modem (some hotels have dedicated modem lines in the ..."

5. Mentally Incontinent by Joe Peacock (2005)
"Finally, I took a cordless telephone from the department and plugged it into the aforementioned vacant store phone jack, hiding the base of the unit with ..."

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