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(telephony) Number 1 electronic automatic exchange.
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(UK, telecommunications, historical) A telephone number consisting purely of digits, introduced in the 1960s to replace numbers that began with an alphabetic code for the exchange.
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(US, Australia, Philippines) A prefix appended to a telephone number indicating the geographical area.
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(computing) malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium rate
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A telephone directory listing American and Canadian state agencies, government agencies and other official entities.
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Alternative form of caller ID [(countable) The telephone number and/or name of the originator of an incoming telephone call, displayed on the screen of the telephone or other electronic device receiving the call.]
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Alternative form of caller ID [(countable) The telephone number and/or name of the originator of an incoming telephone call, displayed on the screen of the telephone or other electronic device receiving the call.]
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Alternative form of caller ID [(countable) The telephone number and/or name of the originator of an incoming telephone call, displayed on the screen of the telephone or other electronic device receiving the call.]
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(telecommunications) The address of a specific pager in a paging network
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caller identification; a feature that identifies the phone number of the caller.
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A telephone number that someone can be contacted on.
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Alternative letter-case form of d-pad [(video games) A plus-shaped directional input pad on a video game controller that allows for eight degrees of movement, now largely superseded by the thumbstick.]
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The act of connecting to a system or service by means of a telecommunication network.
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(British spelling) Alternative form of dialing [The act by which a number is dialed.]
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(US slang) A telephone number.
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The ability to make an external telephone call to an internal extension within an organization.
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(telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
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A sequence of digits that must be dialled before the target number when placing an international call from a given country.
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A number used to contact a particular fax machine.
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The word used for the 35 in telephone numbers prefixes starting with 35. A corresponding letter for 3 can be an F, and a corresponding letter for 5 can be an L. For example, the phone number 35?-???? could be said as, "Fleetwood ?????". This helps to reduce errors made when exchanging contact information. See Wikipedia article, Telephone exchange names
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(chiefly Britain) A service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers.
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A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
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A prefix that must be prepended to a telephone number in order to call a number outside one's own country.
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(US) Reading of fictional phone numbers that begin with 555 with “KL” being “5” on a dial pad.
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(telecommunications) local usage details; a list of locally called numbers, often provided by telecom companies to the police as part of an investigation.
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(telecommunications) In conference calls, the time interval between the instant a request for service is received from one of a group of concurrent users and the instant all but one of the users have released all facilities.
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(telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
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A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district.
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(rare) An alphanumeric word or phrase representing a telephone number, its letters corresponding to those on a telephone keypad.
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The ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network.
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(telecommunications) A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.)
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A telephone number for which an extra charge is assessed to the caller, part of which is returned to the owner of the number.
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(travel) a short alpha-numeric code used by global distribution systems to differentiate between different travel agency offices.
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(telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
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(telecommunications) A number denoting the electrical load of a telephone ringer circuit on a particular line.
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A number of fewer digits than a telephone number, used as an abbreviated telephone number for use only when dialing from a cellular phone.
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A special short telephone number for an SMS or MMS service, designed to be easier to remember.
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A telephone number not listed in the directory.
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(US, Canada) To press the keys *69 in succession on the keypad of a telephone, usually after a missed call, which results in a last-call return by automatically dialling the telephone number of the last caller.
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Alternative form of star 69 [(US, Canada) To press the keys *69 in succession on the keypad of a telephone, usually after a missed call, which results in a last-call return by automatically dialling the telephone number of the last caller.]
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(Canada, US, uncountable, figuratively) Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.
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A listing of telephone subscribers in a specific geographical area, together with their telephone numbers and, sometimes, a street address.
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The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
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(slang, neologism) The person whose telephone number is the same as one's own, but with the final digit increased or decreased by 1; sometimes called as a prank or in an attempt to make friends.
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Abbreviation of telephone number. [The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.]
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a hidden number; a phone number that is hidden from the recipient
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A phone number as a mnemonic whose letters translate into numbers.
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To have a computer dial a large number of phone numbers in search of devices for exploitation, such as modems or fax machines.
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The telephone directory (or section of a larger directory) that lists residential numbers.
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(UK, telephony) The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of international calls.
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