Concept cluster: Graphics and sound > Making and receiving calls
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A telephone service offering advice; a helpline.
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A service that collects and responds to calls for its clients.
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simple past tense of autodial
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(informal) A cell phone bought anonymously with cash, used for only a short time and then thrown away, usually used as a means of conducting illegal business or harassment without being traceable to the purchaser.
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(video games) The act of repeatedly pressing random buttons on a video game controller in hopes of executing attacks and/or other various motions found in video games.
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A business location where phone calls are handled, often regarding customer service, sales and telemarketing.
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(telephony) An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account.
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The person or machine placing a call to another subscriber on a telephone network.
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A telephone call of this kind.
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(telephony) A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
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(telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
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(communication) The name associated with the telephone number or similar identifier of a caller.
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To make a call on a cellphone.
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The use of a computer to dial a number repeatedly (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user has hung up.
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To configure or set up, particularly a complex machine with many configuration options (especially knobs and dials).
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Alternative form of dial in to.
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A telephony signal, usually in the form of a sound, used to indicate that the telephone exchange is working, has recognized an off-hook, and is ready to accept a call.
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(telecommunications, chiefly attributive) A service that allows an international (or other) telephone call to be made indirectly through another number, thus avoiding the usual call routing and potentially saving money.
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(telephony) An audible signal on a voice phone line that sounds more frequently than a standard busy signal, indicating that no transmission path to the called phone number is available.
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The physical representation of this number (for example, affixed to the door or painted on a mailbox).
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A helpline providing information.
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Alternative form of Jody call [(US, military, slang) A cadence or cadence call, a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching.]
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(telephoning) A telephone call which the desired responder does not answer.
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A conversation held by means of a telephone.
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To deliver a message by telephone when etiquette demands the effort and respect conveyed by communication in person.
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(colloquial) A telephone number.
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(politics) To engage in a phone bank; to use many phones to call a large number of people at the same time.
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Alternative form of phone call [A conversation held by means of a telephone.]
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A helpline offering advanced treatment for addiction and behavior change.
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To make robocalls.
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(by extension) One's contact list.
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One who fakes a cell-phone conversation
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telephone call
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A connection established over a telephone network between two parties.
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a phone number (on a phone call) that is unfamiliar to the recipient
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A telephone call without video
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(often derogatory) Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege.
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A telephone call received from an unfamiliar caller, due to a mistake in the number dialled.
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(US, by extension) Any postal code.

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