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Definition of Telephone line
1. Noun. The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals.
Specialized synonyms: Phone Cord, Telephone Cord
Generic synonyms: Conducting Wire, Wire
2. Noun. A telephone connection.
Generic synonyms: Connecter, Connection, Connective, Connector, Connexion
Specialized synonyms: Digital Subscriber Line, Dsl, Hot Line, Land Line, Landline, Party Line, Private Line, Toll Line, Trunk Line, Wats, Wats Line
Definition of Telephone line
1. Noun. The infrastructure which allows a single telephone to be connected to the network and conduct independent calls. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Line
Literary usage of Telephone line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Death <S=I7 — Cutting telephone line used for calling doctor held cause of death.
A railroad, which wrongfully cut a telephone company's line, ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"The court said that a telephone line is a telegraph line within the meaning of
the act of 1866, but held that the act was of no service to plaintiff in ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The first telephone line was a copy of the best telegraph line of the day. ...
An experimental line, the first long distance telephone line in the world, ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"BALANCING OF LINES As pointed out above, the 21-type circuit depends for its
stable operation on the balancing of the telephone line east against the ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The first telephone line «i- a copy of the best telegraph line of the <L-- It
... An experimental line, the first long distance telephone line in the world, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The method first employed for working a telephone line was extremely simple.
A single line of wire, like an ordinary telegraph line, had a Bell telephone ..."
7. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1898)
"Now first of all be sure you want the telephone line and then use ... It was here
that a little family telephone line was constructed of 1;!4 miles in ..."