Telephone

Telephone: a system for talking to sb else over long distances, using wires or radio; a machine used for this: The telephone rang and Pat answered it. * You can reserve seats over the telephone. * need to make a telephone call. * telephone lines ! networks ! services Fax a machine that sends and receives documents in an electronic form along telephone wires and then prints them a system for sending documents using a fa" machine: #an you send it to me by fa"$ * %hat is your fa" number$ You can send fa"es by e&mail from your computer. to send sb a document, message, etc. by fa": #ould you fa" me the latest version$ * #ould you fa" it to me$ * fa"ed the list of hotels through to them. to look up a number in the telephone directory telephone tapping 'also phone tapping( )*+ the practice of connecting a piece of e,uipment to a telephone in order to listen secretly to other people-s telephone conversations telesales !.speaker/telise l0! '1r2( 'also telemarketing ( )*+ a method of selling things and taking orders for sales by telephone