telephone receiver

noun

1. a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.

Word History and Origins

Origin of telephone receiver¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

As they left the tower and the ugly old woman, they heard the latter calling a number into the telephone receiver.

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The doctor—Dr. Braley—returned as the captain hung up the telephone receiver.

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Setting his telephone receiver down the Honorable William Linder lost himself in conjecture.

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He hung up the telephone receiver and skipped out into the hangar to start his engine to warming.

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Tarling dropped the telephone receiver on its hook and had sunk into a chair with a groan.

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