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Phone Book


Synonyms: Phone Book

Synonyms: phonebook (n), telephone book (n), telephone directory (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Phone Book

Specialty definitions using "phone book": APPOINTMENT CLERKCSOGopher object typeJCL, Job Control LanguageReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, reception clerk. (references)

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Modern Usage: Phone Book

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Phone Book

DomainTitle

Books

  • 2002-2003 Hospital Phone Book (Hospital Phone Book 2002-2003) (reference)

  • My Best Phone Book (reference)

  • Sports Phone Book USA 1998: A National Directory of Professional, Intercollegiate, and Amateur Sports (reference)

  • Telephone Skills from A to Z: The Telephone 'Doctor' Phone Book (Fifty-Minute Series Book) (reference)

  • The Phone Book : Breakthrough Neurolinguistic Phone Skills for Profit and Enlightenment (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • 104 Million Businesses & Households Phone Book - Cd-rom (reference)

  • 1.5 Million Doctors Dentists & Pharmacies Phone Book - Cd-ro (reference)

  • 800 Number Phone Book - Cd-rom (reference)

  • Government Phone Book Usa (reference)

  • Insurance Phone Book & Directory (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Phone Book

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Non-Fiction Usage: Phone Book

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Phone Book

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Phone Book

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

   

Spanish

  

guía telefónica (directory, telephone book, telephone directory). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

telefonbok (phonebook). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Phone Book

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Phone Book


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 68 6F 6E 65      42 6F 6F 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#104 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#111 &#107

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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Bibliographic Items: "phone book"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "phone book"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Phone Book