单词 | telephone socket |
释义 | > as lemmastelephone socket (a) attributive. Designating a component part of a telephone or telephone system, as telephone cable, telephone jack, telephone socket, etc. ΚΠ 1880 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 9 126 A telephone-cable should have a pair of exceedingly fine insulated wires of the very highest conductivity pretty close together in a large insulating sheath. 1884 Science 12 Sept. 224/2 Some peculiar construction of telephone-cable to get rid of the ‘cross-talk’. 1910 Telephony 6 Aug. 147/1 The supervisor will thereupon insert her telephone plug into the nearest supervisor's jack. 1922 Bell Telephone Q. 1 60 The telephone amplifier enabled the audience to hear the conversation and music in Havana and in San Francisco. 1964 Clearing House 38 446/1 Ordinary telephone jacks have been installed in four or five rooms in each central school. 1972 Times 1 Apr. 13/5 Readily moveable office furniture and thousands of telephone sockets to accommodate different desk arrangements give us this flexibility. 1997 Icon Thoughtstyle Mag. Apr. 49 (caption) Here at the center of a telephone cable, copper wire is the still-active grandfather of all communication technologies. 2005 People (Nexis) 4 Sept. 19 If I get one more cold call about cheap calls I'm going to rip the telephone socket out of the wall. 2016 Sun (Nexis) 12 Apr. 36 I ring and give all the information required using my telephone keypad. < as lemmas |
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