telephone receiver

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of telephone receiver

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Inside, however, is a telephone receiver and key pad that used to be in the tunnel at Giants Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times

A telephone receiver, a Baofeng-branded radio, and a box of headphones can be seen.

From Reuters

Like the Surrealist Salvador Dalí, who replaced telephone receivers with lobsters, Jacobs creates a hilarity that can also be philosophical.

From New York Times

Marshal Frank Anderson picked up a red telephone receiver and asked someone in a Justice Department command center, “May we proceed with the execution?”

From The New Yorker

On Sunday, they spoke to the men through a glass partition using telephone receivers they said the men struggled to hold up.

From The Guardian