telephone receiver
noun
a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
Origin of telephone receiver
1First recorded in 1905–10
Words Nearby telephone receiver
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How to use telephone receiver in a sentence
As they left the tower and the ugly old woman, they heard the latter calling a number into the telephone receiver.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThe doctor—Dr. Braley—returned as the captain hung up the telephone receiver.
The Winning Clue | James Hay, Jr.Setting his telephone receiver down the Honorable William Linder lost himself in conjecture.
Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins AdamsHe hung up the telephone receiver and skipped out into the hangar to start his engine to warming.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissTarling dropped the telephone receiver on its hook and had sunk into a chair with a groan.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar Wallace
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