0 a phone --
1 to use a phone --
2 a device for speaking to someone in another place by means of electrical signals: --
3 a piece of electronic equipment that makes it possible for you to speak to someone in another place who has similar equipment, using either electrical signals sent along a system of wires, or radio signals; a phone: --
4 to communicate with someone using a phone; to phone someone: --
Evidence shows that the first customers to purchase telephone connections were bankers, tradesmen, newspaper editors and industrialists.
These include, for example, a mixture of specialist on call clinics and telephone consultation facilities at different venues with different opening times.
To some extent, this may reflect the relative visibility of doorstep as opposed to telephone canvassing.
One could luxuriate for long hours in similar acousmatic conceits and their morbid implications, all those sinister telephone voices.
In addition, there were periodic telephone conversations between laboratory staff and parents, conversations in which the vocal development of the infant was discussed in detail.
To characterize patients' demographic characteristics, severity of illness, and history of travel before onset of symptoms, we conducted telephone interviews using a standardized questionnaire.
The follow-ups were in form of visits (50%), telephone contact (45%), letters (3%), and other contact (1%).
The tax system and telephone network have ready distribution and monitoring mechanisms that provided the institutional capacity necessary for implementation, program management, and expansion.
