telephone

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɛlɪfəʊn/    美 /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/|[ˈtɛɫ-]|[ˈteɫəˌfəʉn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A 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. countable
    — The telephones so constructed were placed in different rooms. […] Upon singing into the telephone, the tones of the voice were reproduced by the instrument in the distant room. When two persons sang simultaneously into the instrument, two notes were emitted simultaneously by the telephone in the other house. […] I placed the membrane of the telephone near my mouth, and uttered the sentence, "Do you understand what I say?" Presently an answer was returned through the instrument in my hand. Articular words proceeded from the clock-spring attached to the membrane, and I heard the sentence, "Yes; I understand you perfectly."
  2. Short for telephone call (“a connection established over a telephone network; a conversation held by the parties on this connection”). abbreviation,alt-of,archaic,countable
  3. A means of communicating information from one person to another or others. countable,figuratively
    — In the terminology associated with this phenomenon, Jach Pursel is known as a "channel"—a vehicle through which "entities" from other planes of existence choose to address human beings. In a more familiar metaphor, Jach is the telephone through which Lazaris places his long distance calls: very long distance calls.
  4. Now chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a simple communication device which converts sounds (usually speech) into mechanical vibrations along a string, wire, etc. countable,historical,uncountable
    — string telephone    tin can telephone
  5. A 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. archaic,countable,historical,uncountable
    — It is not easy to say from these passages (which are all we could find on the subject) what plan [Edward] Davy had in contemplation. In the first quotation he speaks of bells, for which we may read a powerful trumpet at one end, and a concave reflector to focus the sound at the other end; or some arrangement like the compressed-air telephone, proposed by Captain Taylor, R.N., in 1844; […]
  6. A 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. archaic,countable,historical,uncountable
    — While on the subject of gutta-percha, a few words may very well be given to Mr. Whishaw's inventions: among these are speaking-tubes, to supersede bells in private houses or offices. So extraordinary are the conducting powers of this new product, that a whisper may can be conveyed to long distances; […] [W]e are, it seems, to be able to speak to a distance without any connecting tube at all; across the inner quadrangle of a building, for instance, by means of large concave gutta-percha reflectors, fixed, one opposite to the other, […] [E]ach reflector would be mounted on a stand similar to that of a theodolite; and thus the portable telephone would be available where the telegraph, as at present arranged, does not admit of application.
  7. A system of communication using musical notes, also known as Solresol, invented in 1828 by the French composer Jean-François Sudre (1787–1862). archaic,countable,historical,uncountable
    — We extract from the France Musicale a few curious particulars relative to the invention of a kind of marine telegraph, called the "Telephone," invented by an ingenious Frenchman, Monsieur Sudre, and by which orders may be transmitted at night, when other means of communication fail. […] A commission […] verified by experiment the rapidity with which all naval commands could be communicated at night through the medium of a clarion, to a distance which may be increased to 2200 toises (about two miles) but which varies according to the state of the atmosphere. […] [T]he return of the same sounds guarantied to M. Sudre the perfect comprehension of his orders, and the Admiral congratulated him on his success.
  8. Synonym 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”). Canada,US,uncountable
    — And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping "purple monkey dishwasher" into the chain.
动词 v.
  1. To convey (information, a message, news, etc.) using a telephone (noun sense 1). transitive
    — David telephoned his apologies to his mother. On the way we had had our first puncture, and had taken some time to change the wheel, as we were unable to find the jack.
  2. To (attempt to) contact (someone) using a telephone. transitive
    — The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.
  3. To provide (a place) with a telephone system. obsolete,transitive
    — The London County Council prepared careful estimates for telephoning London in 1898, and those estimates were submitted to Parliament. It contended that it could provide a telephone service for the County Council area of London at £38 per subscriber capital outlay, after setting aside the necessary funds for the debt charge and after paying the Post Office the 10 per cent. royalty.
  4. To transmit (sounds) over a distance. obsolete,transitive
    — Do you hear the chemical accents of the sun? / Do you telephone the roar of the waters over the earth?
  5. To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone; to make a telephone call. intransitive
    — I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn't I? Why didn't I telephone? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I'd no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape.

词形变化

telephones plural telephones present,singular,third-person telephoning participle,present telephoned participle,past telephoned past

词汇关系

近义词
telephone call call up dial up drop a line get on the horn give someone a bell give someone a buzz give someone a call give someone a jingle give someone a ring give someone a tinkle phone ring ring up
上位词
communicate
下位词
answerphone candlestick telephone cellular telephone cordless telephone daffodil telephone field telephone French telephone magnetotelephone mobile telephone monotelephone pantelephone pedestal telephone pillar telephone portable telephone public telephone radiotelephone radio-telephone radio telephone satellite telephone tin can telephone videotelephone
衍生词
antitelephone big white telephone broken telephone Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone EPR telephone Everett-Wheeler telephone on the telephone phone plain old telephone service post office telephone system premium-rate telephone number pretelephone talk to God on the big white telephone talk to Ralph on the big white telephone telco telemarketing telephone alphabet telephone answering machine telephone-bell telephone book telephone booth telephone box telephone call telephone card telephone conference telephone desk telephone directory telephone exchange telephone game telephone girl telephone jack telephone kiosk telephoneless telephonelike telephone line telephone number telephone operator telephone pole telephone ring telephone scatologia telephone sex telephone shower telephone tag telephone typewriter telephonic telephonicate telephonist telephonitis telephonology telephonophile telephonophobia telephonophobic telephony telethon thermotelephone Tucker telephone untelephoned white-telephone white telephone telephonable retelephone telephoned telephoner telephoning
部分词
dial

词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from tele- (prefix meaning ‘from a distance’) + -phone (suffix denoting a device which makes a sound), modelled after German Telephon (“early apparatus converting sound into electrical signals”) (dated) (now German Telefon). The word was first used to refer to the modern device in 1876 by the Scottish-born Canadian-American engineer Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922).
The prefix tele- is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar, far away, far off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”). The suffix -phone is ultimately from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; voice”), and Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say; to speak”).
Noun sense 4.4 (“system of communication using musical notes”) is borrowed from French téléphone (“kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The noun is derived from tele- (prefix meaning ‘from a distance’) + -phone (suffix denoting a device which makes a sound), modelled after German Telephon (“early apparatus converting sound into electrical signals”) (dated) (now German Telefon). The word was first used to refer to the modern device in 1876 by the Scottish-born Canadian-American engineer Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922).
The prefix tele- is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar, far away, far off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”). The suffix -phone is ultimately from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; voice”), and Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say; to speak”).
Noun sense 4.4 (“system of communication using musical notes”) is borrowed from French téléphone (“kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
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