| 单词 | chat line |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschat line chat line n. [line n.2 1e] a telephone or electronic messaging service which enables subscribers to exchange casual conversation, either individually or by means of a conference line, with other subscribers or with employees of the service. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone services answering service1904 information1910 speaking clock1934 talking clock1936 TIM1936 telebus1942 wake-up service1946 subscriber trunk dialling1952 freephone1959 telephone hotline1961 WATS1962 call waiting1963 night line1970 phone-in1970 telephone helpline1970 help-line1980 line1983 Cellnet1984 chat line1984 Vodafone1984 telepoint1987 callback1992 1984 InfoWorld 26 Mar. 103/3 CompuServe once seemed mainly to target the home user with its on-line games and chat lines, but now offers many of the same business services available on The Source. 1987 Advertising Age 14 Sept. 92/2 Minitel didn't really boom until the 1981 introduction of chat lines that allow Minitel users to converse with one another directly. 1991 Independent on Sunday 24 Mar. 25/7 Yesterday there were 20 [advertisements] promoting pornographic ‘chat lines’ in which one is, for instance, invited to ‘talk dirty’. 1992 Economist 11 Apr. 25/4 Oftel, the telecommunications watchdog, pulled the plug on telephone chatlines. The chatline operators had failed to come up with £600,000 ($1m) demanded by Oftel, to compensate desperate parents whose offspring ran up gigantic bills. < as lemmas |
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