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Telephone Wire

Definition: Telephone Wire

Telephone Wire

Noun

1. The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Telephone Wire

Synonyms: telegraph line (n), telegraph wire (n), telephone line (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Telephone Wire

English words defined with "telephone wire": buginterceptphone cord, phone tappertap, tapper, telegraph line, telegraph wire, telephone cord, telephone linewired, wiretap, wiretapper. (references)
Specialty definitions using "telephone wire": American Wire Gauge, ANTENNA INSTALLER, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONSCABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, central-office maintainer, CENTRAL-OFFICE REPAIRER, clerk, personal service bureau, clerk, private wire-billing and control, CLERK, ROUTE, CLERK, TELEGRAPH SERVICE, crane riggerhook tenderLINE SUPERVISORparallel wire method, pbx repairer, PRIVATE-BRANCH-EXCHANGE REPAIRERradiophon, RJ45, RJ-45telephone repairer, telephoto operator, TWISTING-MACHINE OPERATORunshielded twisted pairWIRE-PHOTO OPERATOR, NEWSyard rigger. (references)

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Modern Usage: Telephone Wire

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ugh! Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose is as long as a telephone wire. (Ultimo tango a Parigi; writing credit: Bernardo Bertolucci;)

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

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Commercial Usage: Telephone Wire

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cable Distribution and Interconnection Systems for Telephone Wire Centers [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Telephone Wire

Computer Images:
Telephone Wire

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Photo Album: Telephone Wire

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A civilian conservation corps telephone lineman fastening a telephone wire to a glass insulator atop a telephone pole in one of the National forests.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translations: Telephone Wire

Language Translations for "telephone wire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

電話線 (telephone line). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puhelinlanka. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elephonetay ireway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Telephone Wire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-r-t-w"

-3 letters: telephoner.

-4 letters: interlope, nephelite, repletion, telephone, terpineol, whereinto.

-5 letters: erewhile, heliport, hereinto, hotelier, leporine, nephrite, pelerine, petronel, phenetol, pilewort, pinwheel, terpinol, tholepin, trephine, whitener.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Telephone Wire


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

54 65 6C 65 70 68 6F 6E 65      57 69 72 65

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

    

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

01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01010111 01101001 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#87 &#105 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006C 0065 0070 0068 006F 006E 0065      0057 0069 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547178718274818071257758471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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