TELEPHONE LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephone line mean? 

• TELEPHONE LINE (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONE LINE has 2 senses:

1. the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals

2. a telephone connection

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONE LINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPHONE LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

telegraph line; telegraph wire; telephone line; telephone wire

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

conducting wire; wire (a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance)

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

phone cord; telephone cord (the telephone wire that connects to the handset)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A telephone connection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

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

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telephone 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)

 Context examples 

Like static on a telephone line, peripheral nerve disorders distort or interrupt the messages between the brain and the rest of the body.

(Peripheral Nerve Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

An electronic device for converting between serial data from a computer and an audio signal suitable for transmission over a telephone line connected to another modem.

(Modem Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)