单词 | white pages |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite pages white pages n. originally and chiefly North American a telephone directory, or section of a telephone directory, containing the phone numbers and addresses of residents and businesses listed alphabetically, usually without any advertising copy; cf. Yellow Pages n. at yellow adj. and n. Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1927 Lock Haven (Pa.) Express 15 July 8/5 The Williamsport directory..has 184 white pages and the 31 pages in the classified or yellow section.] 1935 Oak Park (Illinois) Telephone Directory Dec. 274 The Yellow Pages are intended to make it easier for you to use your telephone... Instead of poring over long columns of ‘Smith’ in the white pages, you usually spot ‘Smith James R.’ at a glance under ‘Physicians’. 1986 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 29 May There are 1280 Nguyens listed in the new 1986 white pages, making the Vietnamese name 48th most common in Melbourne. 1997 J. Goad Redneck Manifesto (1998) i. 30 The man who tied the knot was the Reverend Walker Goad, whose name we found in the white pages. 2012 K. Raustiala & C. Sprigman Knockoff Econ. 162 The white pages are really just a database distributed on paper. < as lemmas |
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