Telephone exchange

Definition

telephone /'telÇfǝƱn/ (also phone ) n (က) [U] တယ္လီဖုန္း။ ဖုန္း။ စကားေျပာေၾကးနန္း။ make a telephone call ❍ a telephone conversation ❍ order goods over the telephone ❍ You can always reach (ie contact) me by telephone. (ခ) [C] တယ္လီဖုန္း။ ဖုန္း။ a mobile/portable phone ❍ a car phone ❍ answer the telephone (ie pick up the RECEIVER (၁) to receive a call) ❍ put the telephone down (ie replace the RECEIVER (၁)) ❍ The telephone hasn't stopped ringing all day (ie There have been a lot of calls). (also phone ) v တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္ေျပာသည္။ ဖုန္းဆက္သည္။ Will you write or telephone? ❍ telephone an order (to head office) ❍ He telephoned (his wife) to say he'd be late. ❏ on the telephone [ IDM ] ၁။ တယ္လီဖုန္းေျပာေနသည္။ She's on the telephone at the moment. ❍ You're wanted (ie Somebody wants to speak to you) on the telephone. ၂။ ( Brit ) တယ္လီဖုန္းတပ္ဆင္သည္။ They've just moved and they're not on the telephone yet. ❏ telephone box (also telephone booth, telephone kiosk ) n = PHONE BOX ❏ telephone directory (also phone directory, telephone book, phone book ) n တယ္လီ ဖုန္းလမ္းၫႊန္စာအုပ္။ ❏ telephone exchange (also exchange ) n တယ္လီဖုန္း႐ံုး။ ❏ telephone number (also phone number ) n တယ္လီဖုန္းနံပါတ္။ ❏ telephone tapping (also phone tapping ) n [U] တယ္လီဖုန္းကို ၾကားျဖတ္နားေထာင္ရန္ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ ကိရိယာ တပ္ဆင္ျခင္း။ ❏ telephonist /tǝ'lefǝnÇst/ n = OPERATOR ၂ ❏ telephony /tǝ'lefǝni/ n [U] တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္ ဆက္သြယ္မႈ။

Examples

1. They’ve got a telephone next to their bed.
2. A digital cordless telephone
3. [a telephone rings] : The telephone’s been ringing all morning.
4. [pick up/answer the telephone] : Pascoe picked up the telephone and said ‘Hello’.
5. [use the telephone] : May I use your telephone?
6. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
7. [over the telephone] : People are interviewed over the telephone.
8. [by telephone] : I placed my order by telephone two weeks ago.
9. A telephone line/dial/switchboard
10. Telephone communications/conversations/bookings