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Telephone line   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn laɪn/   Listen
Telephone line

noun
1.
The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals.  Synonyms: telegraph line, telegraph wire, telephone wire.
2.
A telephone connection.  Synonyms: line, phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit.






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"Telephone line" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eldest of the Rover boys. "Wonder if I can get him on the telephone?" For a telephone line had been put up from Oak Run ...
— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

... talk on record—that is, it is the longest continuous telephone line in steady and constant use, though the human voice has been carried even greater distances with the aid of this ...
— Stories of Inventors - The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers • Russell Doubleday

... Headquarters to the effect that the 137th Brigade were across the canal, arrived at 8.30 a.m., and orders were at once sent to the three Battalions to get on the move and keep in close touch. Unfortunately our telephone line to Brigade Headquarters was broken, and the message had to be sent by runners, who after experiencing the greatest difficulty owing to the fog, eventually reached us at 9.37 a.m. Orders were sent to Companies as quickly as possible, and we moved off again in artillery formation, ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman

... The only telephone line in the world at this time was between the Williams' workshop in Boston and the home of Mr. Williams in Somerville. But in May, 1877, a young man named E. T. Holmes, who was running a burglar-alarm business in Boston, proposed that a few telephones be linked to his wires. ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson

... we've got to do," Bud declared, "is to mend that break in the telephone line. If that had been working last night you could have called us up, Kid, instead of you and Buck having ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker



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