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- noun Plural form of
telephone . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
telephone .
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Examples
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I am a communicatons installer and my company not only specializes in telephones, we install and set up home theater systems as well.
Cablevision: It's Impossible To Hook Up Basic Service Without A Converter Box - The Consumerist 2009
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The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.
Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Disappearance of Honey Bees? | Impact Lab 2010
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Electronics and software have replaced mechanical components in telephones, watches, tape recorders, record players, ovens, electric power generation (fuel cell), typewriters, etc.
CHAdeMO Developing Global Electric Vehicle Charging Standard | Inhabitat 2010
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We get plenty of ethnography and critical sociology without being beaten over the head with it - what is more critical than a scene in which a man with blood all over his hands telephones from the nursing home that Bater has just slit his wrists, and adds that doctors won't treat him unless they're sent the right bribes?
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However, long before the global network of fixed telephones is established, there will be a parallel development which will eventually bypass it completely -- though perhaps not until well into the next century.
June 24th, 2006 2006
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Authentic artifacts, like actual working telephones from the 30?
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Until the cost of telephones is greatly reduced so as to bring them into general use, as lighting and street car services are used, this particular service cannot be classed as a public utility.
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Now researchers from Chandigarh’s Punjab University claim they have found the cause which could be the first step in reversing the decline: They have established that radiation from mobile telephones is a key factor in the phenomenon and say that it probably interfering with the bee’s navigation senses.
Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Disappearance of Honey Bees? | Impact Lab 2010
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We can happily let the kids do their internet stuff, knowing that our own smug little land of postal service and telephones is the giant they’re standing on.
"Digital natives"? 2006
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But through the power of modern technology, the use of e-mail and telephones, that is another way to be in touch with the world without only living in an airplane to do so.
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