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PHONE LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phone line mean? 

PHONE LINE (noun)
  The noun PHONE LINE has 1 sense:

1. a telephone connectionplay

  Familiarity information: PHONE LINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHONE LINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A telephone connection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

line; phone line; subscriber line; telephone circuit; telephone line

Hypernyms ("phone line" is a kind of...):

connecter; connection; connective; connector; connexion (an instrumentality that connects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phone line"):

digital subscriber line; DSL (a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds)

hot line (a direct telephone line between two officials)

land line; landline (a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits)

party line (a telephone line serving two or more subscribers)

private line (a telephone line serving a single subscriber)

toll line (a telephone line for long-distance calls)

trunk line (a telephone line connecting two exchanges directly)

WATS; WATS line (a telephone line;long distance service at fixed rates for fixed zones; an acronym for wide area telephone service)


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