Meaning of "telephone"

telephone •

n.
• • a means for transmitting sound by electricity: telepono [var. phone]

v.
• • to talk through a telephone, send a message by telephone: tumelepono, teleponohan, itelepono, tumawag (tawagan, tawagin) sa telepono

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call

v.
• • 1. to summon (by calling): tumawag, tawagin, tawagan
  • 2. to name: magpangalan, ipangalan, pangalanan, itawag, tawagin
  • 3. to call the attention of: tawagan ng pansin
  • 4. to call up, to telephone: tumelepono, teleponohan
  • 5. to call out, to shout: sumigaw, humiyaw

n.
• • a call, shout: tawag, sigaw

receiver

n.
• • 1. a person who receives: ang tumanggap (tumatanggap, tagatanggap)
  • 2. a thing that receives: sisidlan, tipunan, panahod, pansahod
  • 3. a telephone receiver: awditibo

line

n.
• • 1. a long narrow mark: linya, guhit
  • 2. a row of persons or things, single file or abreast: pila, hanay, hilera
  • 3. a piece of rope: lubid
  • 4. a piece of cord: tali, pisi
  • 5. a piece of wire: kawad, alambre
  • 6. a clothesline: sampayan
  • 7. a fishing line: hapin, bingwit
  • 8. a telephone line: linya ng telepono

v.
• • 1. to mark / draw with lines: guhitan, linyahan
  • 2. to line up, to form in line: humanay, ihanay, humilera, ihilera, pumila, ipila

telepono

n.
• • telephone

bagsak

v.
• • bumagsak (um-) to fall, to fail. Bumagsak ang eroplanong sinasakyan ng pangulo. The airplane the president was on crashed. magbagsak, ibagsak (mag-:i-)

v.
• • to drop. Ibinagsak ng Totoy ang telepono. Totoy slammed down the telephone.