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TELEPHONE
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
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Classic
11
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Big
11
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Super Big
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TELEPHONE is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.
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noun
- countableA telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to communicate with each other over a distance; now usually a device having a dial or keypad with numerals for entering a number, etc., to connect with a person, and means (such as a sound or vibration) for alerting one to an incoming call or transmission; also, the handset or receiver of such a device.
- abbreviationarchaiccountableShort for telephone call (“a connection established over a telephone network; a conversation held by the parties on this connection”).
- countablefigurativelyA means of communicating information from one person to another or others.
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countablehistoricaluncountableNow chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a simple communication device which converts sounds (usually speech) into mechanical vibrations along a string, wire, etc.
- string telephone tin can telephone
- archaiccountablehistoricaluncountableA type of foghorn used for sending signals in the form of loud tones or musical notes, especially one invented in the 19th century by John Taylor, a captain in the British Royal Navy.
- archaiccountablehistoricaluncountableA communication device consisting of two aligned gutta-percha speaking tubes connected to parabolic reflectors which allows speech spoken into one tube to be sent through the air to the other one, invented in the 19th century by the British engineer Francis Whishaw (1804–1856); also, a speaking tube of such a device.
- archaiccountablehistoricaluncountableA system of communication using musical notes, also known as Solresol, invented in 1828 by the French composer Jean-François Sudre (1787–1862).
- CanadaUSuncountableSynonym of Chinese whispers (“a game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase; (figurative) a situation where something is changed or misunderstood as a result of passing through successive people or processes”).
verb
- transitiveTo convey (information, a message, news, etc.) using a telephone (noun sense 1).
- transitiveTo (attempt to) contact (someone) using a telephone.
- obsoletetransitiveTo provide (a place) with a telephone system.
- obsoletetransitiveTo transmit (sounds) over a distance.
- intransitiveTo (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone; to make a telephone call.