Akademik

telephone set

noun

electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

-

I talked to him on the telephone

• Syn: ↑telephone, ↑phone

• Derivationally related forms: ↑phone (for: ↑phone), ↑telephone (for: ↑telephone)

• Hypernyms: ↑electronic equipment

• Hyponyms:

↑desk phone, ↑dial telephone, ↑dial phone, ↑extension, ↑telephone extension, ↑extension phone, ↑handset, ↑French telephone, ↑pay-phone, ↑pay-station, ↑radiotelephone, ↑radiophone, ↑wireless telephone, ↑speakerphone

• Part Holonyms: ↑telephone system, ↑phone system

• Part Meronyms: ↑mouthpiece, ↑telephone receiver, ↑receiver

Useful english dictionary. 2012.