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long distance collapse: a telephone call made outside the local calling area; "I talked to her by long distance"

telephone collapse: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"; transmitting speech at a distance

operator collapse: an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard"; someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?"; a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets; (mathematics) a symbol that represents a function from functions to functions; "the integral operator"

phone collapse: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

scalper collapse: someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper"

receiver collapse: set that receives radio or tv signals; a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass

lame duck collapse: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

central collapse: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication; in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning"; centrally located and easy to reach; "the central city has good bus service"; "the shop has a central location"; used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place; "the people of Central and Northern Europe"; "country in central Africa"

speculator collapse: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains; someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts

Yellow Pages collapse: a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising

plunger collapse: hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains

mouthpiece collapse: the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly; the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth; an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks; (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth; a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person; "the mouthpiece of a respirator"; a spokesperson (as a lawyer)

source book collapse: a collection of historically important documents published together as a book

polyglot collapse: having a command of or composed in many languages; "a polyglot traveler"; "a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages"

studbook collapse: official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses

beaver collapse: large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges; a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material); a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face; a full beard; the soft brown fur of the beaver; work hard on something

handbook collapse: a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location

reference book collapse: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"

encyclopedia collapse: a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty

casebook collapse: a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work; according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"

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