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telephone receiver

noun

  1. a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of telephone receiver1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Inside, however, is a telephone receiver and key pad that used to be in the tunnel at Giants Stadium.

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A telephone receiver, a Baofeng-branded radio, and a box of headphones can be seen.

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Bell listened for the telltale tone on the telephone receiver.

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She still held the telephone receiver to her ear as she waited for the operator to ring the doctor, and spoke as if she only saw Ophie.

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Like the Surrealist Salvador Dalí, who replaced telephone receivers with lobsters, Jacobs creates a hilarity that can also be philosophical.

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