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Synonyms: Phone BookSynonyms: phonebook (n), telephone book (n), telephone directory (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Phone Book |
| Specialty definitions using "phone book": APPOINTMENT CLERK ♦ CSO ♦ Gopher object type ♦ JCL, Job Control Language ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, reception clerk. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Gosh! You have my last name tattooed right there under the j's! First I get my name in the phone book and now I'm on your ass! (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Go get my goddamn phone book! Get the book! (Armageddon; writing credit: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | Look for their number in the blue pages of the phone book. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
phone book | 17,439 | calgary phone book | 70 |
reverse phone book | 1,779 | phone book directory | 65 |
online phone book | 801 | san antonio phone book | 64 |
phone book white page | 440 | cell phone book | 63 |
canada phone book | 158 | dallas phone book | 62 |
international phone book | 149 | ontario phone book | 61 |
verizon phone book | 143 | new jersey phone book | 61 |
phone book florida | 133 | phone book usa | 60 |
phone book uk | 129 | qwest phone book | 60 |
phone book california | 113 | atlanta phone book | 59 |
phone book listing | 97 | phone book illinois | 59 |
new york phone book | 96 | san diego phone book | 55 |
phone book texas | 96 | wisconsin phone book | 54 |
yellow page phone book | 92 | seattle phone book | 54 |
toronto phone book | 85 | indiana phone book | 51 |
houston phone book | 83 | edmonton phone book | 48 |
phone book michigan | 81 | internet phone book | 47 |
canadian phone book | 81 | phone book maryland | 47 |
chicago phone book | 80 | phone book north carolina | 46 |
ohio phone book | 78 | us phone book | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "phone book"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | دليل التلفونات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | telefonní seznam (telephone book, telephone directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | telefoonboek (telephone directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | annuaire téléphonique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | telefonbuch (telephone book, telephone directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | elenco telefonico (directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onephay ookbay guía telefónica (directory, telephone book, telephone directory). (various references) telefonbok (phonebook). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-k-n-o-o-o-p" | |
-3 letters: hoopoe. | |
-4 letters: phone, phono. | |
-5 letters: bone, bonk, book, boon, ebon, hobo, hoke, hone, honk, hook, hoop, hope, keno, knob, knop, kobo, koph, nook, nope, oboe, okeh, open, peon, phon, poke, pone, pooh, poon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 6F 6E 65      42 6F 6F 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P h o n e   B o o k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0068 006F 006E 0065      0042 006F 006F 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5074818071236818177 |
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