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phone line

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. telephone line, phone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line, linenoun

    a telephone connection

Wiktionary

  1. phone linenoun

    short for telephone line

Wikipedia

  1. phone line

    A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. It is designed to reproduce speech of a quality that is understandable. It is the physical wire or other signaling medium connecting the user's telephone apparatus to the telecommunications network, and usually also implies a single telephone number for billing purposes reserved for that user. Telephone lines are used to deliver landline telephone service and Digital subscriber line (DSL) phone cable service to the premises. Telephone overhead lines are connected to the public switched telephone network. The voltage at a subscriber's network interface is typically 48 V between the ring and tip wires, with tip near ground and ring at –48 V.

ChatGPT

  1. phone line

    A phone line, also known as a telephone line, is a physical wire or fiber optic cable connection that facilitates voice communication via telephones, fax machines, and computers across local, regional, or international networks. It can also refer to a particular connection or 'circuit' between telephone points in a given network.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of phone line in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of phone line in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of phone line in a Sentence

  1. Secretary Powell:

    I did n’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line( sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers, i even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in State Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.

  2. Ron DeSantis:

    We got to work together to make sure we’re doing the best job for them, so my phone line is open.

  3. Ron DeSantis:

    My view on all this is like, you’ve got people’s lives at stake, you’ve got their property at stake, and we don’t have time for pettiness, we got to work together to make sure we’re doing the best job for them, so my phone line is open.

  4. David Feith:

    Strategic risk reduction can be good, but up to a point, akin to basic hygiene. The central issue is that Beijing is hostile, predatory and highly capable, so the US must organize to defend and push back across the board. The Joe Biden administration has said that they plan to do The Biden administration. So while setting up a phone line can be useful, we shouldn't sink too much significant into it.

  5. Adrian Edwards:

    We are still getting information about how many people affected, we know that thousands of refugees were there, the reports that we've received, the town was attacked by about 30 militants using boats, they attacked parts of the town itself, the 'chef de canton' himself was killed. We were in contact with a refugee during the attack but the phone line went dead. We are still trying to find out more about the situation there.

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