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Definition: Telephone Wire |
Telephone WireNoun1. The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Telephone WireSynonyms: telegraph line (n), telegraph wire (n), telephone line (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Telephone Wire |
| English words defined with "telephone wire": bug ♦ intercept ♦ phone cord, phone tapper ♦ tap, tapper, telegraph line, telegraph wire, telephone cord, telephone line ♦ wired, wiretap, wiretapper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "telephone wire": American Wire Gauge, ANTENNA INSTALLER, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ♦ CABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, central-office maintainer, CENTRAL-OFFICE REPAIRER, clerk, personal service bureau, clerk, private wire-billing and control, CLERK, ROUTE, CLERK, TELEGRAPH SERVICE, crane rigger ♦ hook tender ♦ LINE SUPERVISOR ♦ parallel wire method, pbx repairer, PRIVATE-BRANCH-EXCHANGE REPAIRER ♦ radiophon, RJ45, RJ-45 ♦ telephone repairer, telephoto operator, TWISTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ unshielded twisted pair ♦ WIRE-PHOTO OPERATOR, NEWS ♦ yard rigger. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ugh! Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose is as long as a telephone wire. (Ultimo tango a Parigi; writing credit: Bernardo Bertolucci;) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| 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 | ||||
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. | |
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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)
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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)T e l e p h o n e   W i r e |
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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