telephone receiver


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

Origin of telephone receiver

1
First 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 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 Adams
  • He hung up the telephone receiver and skipped out into the hangar to start his engine to warming.

    The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
  • Tarling dropped the telephone receiver on its hook and had sunk into a chair with a groan.

    The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar Wallace