telephone set

Questions about telephone set

What is another word for telephone set?

It depends which telephone set you mean. In the sense “electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds”, the synonyms are telephone, phone. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of telephone set?

WordNet records no antonym for telephone set. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for telephone set come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of telephone set

• Full entry for telephone setAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for telephone setWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.