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TELEPHONE CALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephone call mean? 

TELEPHONE CALL (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONE CALL has 1 sense:

1. a telephone connectionplay

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONE CALL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TELEPHONE CALL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A telephone connection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

call; phone call; telephone call

Context example:

he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call

Hypernyms ("telephone call" is a kind of...):

telephone; telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telephone call"):

call-back (a return call)

collect call (a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for)

call-in (a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program)

crank call (a hostile telephone call (from a crank))

local call (a telephone call made within a local calling area)

long-distance call; long distance; trunk call (a telephone call made outside the local calling area)

conference call (a telephone call in which more than two people participate)

wake-up call (a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels))


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