Definition of Telephone plug

1. Noun. A plug for connecting a telephone.

Exact synonyms: Phone Plug
Generic synonyms: Male Plug, Plug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Plug

telephone directory
telephone exchange
telephone extension
telephone interview
telephone jack
telephone jacks
telephone kiosk
telephone line
telephone lines
telephone message
telephone number
telephone numbers
telephone operator
telephone operators
telephone order
telephone plug (current term)
telephone pole
telephone poles
telephone receiver
telephone service
telephone set
telephone system
telephone tag
telephone theory
telephone unit
telephone wire
telephoned
telephoneless
telephonelike
telephoner

Literary usage of Telephone plug

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

1. Radio-telephony for Everyone: The Wireless: how to Construct and Maintain by Laurence Marsham Cockaday (1922)
"A receptacle into which the telephone plug is inserted to make connection ... telephone plug.—A contact-making device fastened on the end of the telephone ..."

2. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"If the attendant desires to ring out on the line, she has only to insert the telephone plug into the jack of that line, and turn the generator crank of the ..."

3. Telephones, Their Construction and Fitting: A Practical Treatise on the by Frederick Charles Allsop (1892)
"121 108 „ „ „ 122 109 „ „ „ 122 110 Plug switch 122 111 , 122 112 Telephone switch-board 123 113 „ „ 124 114 telephone plug 125 US „ , 125 116 ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1903)
"To put himself in communication with the train dispatcher it is only necessary for the motorman to insert his telephone plug into the connections of the ..."

5. Field Artillery Materiel: Notes on the Development, Use and Care of Modern by James Patrick Kelly (1920)
"The telephone plug is finally slipped inside the coil thus formed by the connection cord, and the entire set is carefully placed in its compartment in the ..."

6. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"A conducting cylinder upon a telephone plug, making contact with the barrel or socket of a telephone jack. Slide Bridge.— A bridge whose proportionate arms ..."

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