telephone
/ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ verb A2- To convey (information, a message, news, etc.) using a telephone (noun sense 1).
- To (attempt to) contact (someone) using a telephone.
- To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone; to make a telephone call.
He/she/it telephones · Past telephoned · Past participle telephoned · -ing form telephoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- telephone
- He/she/it
- telephones
- Past
- telephoned
- Past participle
- telephoned
- -ing form
- telephoning
From the library
The telephone directory lay on the table beside me, and I turned over the pages in a rather hopeless quest.
Here there was nothing of this; Anne knew that outside of her window was a hard street, with a network of telephone wires shutting out the sky, the tramp of alien feet, and a thousand lights gleaming on stranger faces.
"Ralph," he said, "telephone down to the county police and ask the inspector to send up two constables.
The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.
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