| 释义 |
ˌtelephoˈnetics, n. pl. nonce-wd.
[f. telephone n., after phonetics; or f. tele- + phonetics.]
The practice of using a telephone; also (quot. 1893) signalling by sounds.
1877Daily News 30 Nov. 5/1 The general public..must apparently be content for the present to indulge in telephonetics only between..10 p.m. and 10 a.m. 1893Church Q. Rev. Oct. 242 There was also what may be almost styled a code of telephonetics among the Benedictines, who understood what the Abbot meant when he jingled his spoons. |