Definition of Telephone wire

1. Noun. The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals.

Exact synonyms: Telegraph Line, Telegraph Wire, Telephone Line
Specialized synonyms: Phone Cord, Telephone Cord
Generic synonyms: Conducting Wire, Wire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Wire

telephone number
telephone numbers
telephone operator
telephone operators
telephone order
telephone plug
telephone pole
telephone poles
telephone receiver
telephone service
telephone set
telephone system
telephone tag
telephone theory
telephone unit
telephone wire (current term)
telephoned
telephoneless
telephonelike
telephoner
telephoners
telephones
telephonic
telephonically
telephonies
telephoning
telephonist
telephonists
telephony
telephoto

Literary usage of Telephone wire

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 (1913)
"On the day preceding the injury said telephone wire fell across the sidewalk on Parnell street while the same was thus charged with electricity, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... many matters of importance in the operation of telephone systems, such as traffic and commercial features. telephone wire MILEAGE OF THE WORLD Per cent ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1908)
"By AIEE THE telephone wire PLANT BY SERGIUS P. GRACE Telephone engineering has been looked upon by many engineers as principally a switchboard problem. ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"CHARLES C. OWEN, East Orange, NJ Virginia Rail killed by striking a telephone wire. — On September 8, a specimen of the Virginia Rail ..."

5. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"... telephone wire (N0. l8 B. & SG). The wire to be furnished under these specifications is No. 18 B. & SG rubber-covered copper wire. ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Telegraph and Telephone Companies: Including by Sidney Walter Jones (1916)
"App. 484, where a telephone wire is above a trolley wire, and the trolley itself slips off the trolley wire and breaks the telephone wire, and the latter ..."

7. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"The lever shown in the figure is fixed to each insulator by means of a clamp, and the weighted end is attached to the telephone wire. ..."

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