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Meanings of telephone set in English

Portuguese
telefone
Catalan
telèfon
Spanish
teléfono
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Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.

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Usage of telephone set in English
1
Whenever a regiment lunged forward, one of the soldiers carried a telephone set.
The History of the Telephone
2
I noticed a radio telephone set in this man Cassey's office.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize
3
At that moment the telephone set up an insistent ringing, breaking in on Mr. Damon's remarks.
Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky
4
This practice was designed for use with series lines, the plug short-circuiting the telephone set when in place.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 / A General Refer...
5
The ringer circuit is the only path through the telephone set for about 98 per cent of the time.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 / A General Refer...
6
Cope's response was dry and meagre; free speech was impossible over a lodging-house telephone set in the public hall.
Bertram Cope's Year
7
The name telephone set is perhaps to be preferred to the word telephone, since it tends to avoid misunderstanding as to exactly what is meant.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 / A General Refer...
8
All that there is to such a complete common-battery telephone set, therefore, is a receiver, transmitter, hook switch, bell, condenser, and cabinet, or other support.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 / A General Refer...
9
Nothing in my use of vinyl records or radio or the telephone set me apart from people who were born in 1929 or 1909.
Wired
10
Several more journos jabbered into Bakelite telephones set up alongside them.
Exit wound
11
Upon the platform were numerous wireless telephone sets that had been received for the competition.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize
12
The wire and all those telephone sets are gone.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
13
150 is shown the circuit of the Stromberg-Carlson magneto desk- telephone set, illustrated in Fig.
Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 / A General Refer...
14
I had ten or twelve thousand feet of high-priced, insulated copper wire, and a dozen or more telephone sets, in the store-room.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
15
"Do so, please." The Assistant Commissioner sighed wearily, as one of his telephones set up a muted buzzing.
Fire-Tongue
Translations for telephone set
Portuguese
telefone
Catalan
telèfon
Spanish
teléfono