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Definition: Telephone Book |
Telephone BookNoun1. A directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Telephone BookSynonyms: phone book (n), phonebook (n), telephone directory (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Telephone Book |
| Specialty definitions using "telephone book": air-freight agent, APPOINTMENT CLERK ♦ CARGO AGENT, clerk-operator, customer service agent ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, reception clerk ♦ TELEPHONE CLERK, TELEGRAPH OFFICE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Telephone Book (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Check your telephone book for the telephone number and address of your local club. (references) | |
Call your local cancer support organizations, including the American Cancer Society, which may sponsor groups in your area. Check the telephone book for contact information. (references) | ||
Business | It is illegal, for example, to collect phone numbers from a telephone book and make unsolicited phone calls to market a product. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "telephone book"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | libër telefonash (telephone directory). (various references) | |
Arabic | دليل الهاتف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | телефонен указател (directory, telephone directory). (various references) | |
Czech | telefonní seznam (phone book, telephone directory). (various references) | |
French | annuaire (telephone directory). (various references) | |
German | telefonbuch (directory, phone book, telephone directory). (various references) | |
Hungarian | telefonkönyv (directory, telephone directory). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 電話帳 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | で"わちょう. (various references) | |
Manx | lioar hellvane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elephonetay ookbay.(various references) | |
Russian | телефонный справочник (telephone directory). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | telefonski imenik (telephone directory). (various references) | |
Spanish | guía telefónica (directory, phone book, telephone directory). (various references) | |
Swedish | telefonkatalog (directory, telephone directory, yellow pages). (various references) | |
Turkish | telefon rehberi (directory, telephone directory, yellow pages). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Telephone Book" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: telephon book. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-h-k-l-n-o-o-o-p-t" | |
-4 letters: telephone. | |
-5 letters: kneehole, knothole, notebook, phenetol. | |
| 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)54 65 6C 65 70 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)01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e l e p h o n e   B o o k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 0065 0070 0068 006F 006E 0065 0042 006F 006F 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547178718274818071236818177 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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