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earpiece
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
earpiece
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A thin cord leads to Sam's earpiece.
▪ At two minutes past six Holloway pressed his earpiece.
▪ Her hand tightened convulsively on the receiver, the earpiece jerked against her face.
▪ Lift the telephone and hold the microphone next to the telephone earpiece.
▪ One interesting point is that signals for both directions pass through both microphones and both earpieces.
▪ The nurse listened with an earpiece.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
earpiece

earpiece \earpiece\ n. a device for converting electric signals into sounds, designed to be held over or inserted into the ear; as, The common telephone handset has a speaker and an earpiece.

Syn: earphone, headphone, phone.

Wiktionary
earpiece

n. 1 A speaker placed inside or held near to the ear. 2 The arm on a pair of glasses that hooks over the ear to hold them in place.

WordNet
earpiece

n. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: earphone, headphone, phone]

Usage examples of "earpiece".

At an almost subliminal level, a soft musical refrain had begun, a chanting sound that whispered in her ears: Chango mani rote Chango mani cote olle Larry Niven and Steven Barnes 159 She tapped at the earpiece of her Virtual set.

The training was necessary, as few of the Marines had ever used motion detectors with earpieces.

If any of us is separated from the others, use your earpieces to get together again.

They followed the others through the air lock and let their faceplates and breath masks hang over their collars, leaving their throat mikes and earpieces in place so they could communicate quietly.

In Brasche's earpiece his three companies of four Tigers each likewise reported ready for action.

Holding the earpiece in place, he clicked once and immediately heard two clicks in response.

Another wheelchaired form has appeared just behind and to the right of the first seated backlit form across the street, and they're both in a position to see Green up against the tree with his hand to his ear so it looks like he's maybe receiving communiques from some kind of earpiece.

Three of them are duskies, and it's not the hour—" The guard was suddenly obliged to hold the earpiece a few inches from his head, and even at this distance Zeb could hear shrill noises of unhappiness emitting from it.

On the advice of an army surgeon he had put axle grease behind his ears to protect against the chafing wire, but still the earpieces irritated him.

They had only paused for a moment in the body shop, so Donal could find an earpiece for Sam.

JR sat beside Bucklin and Lyra and put in his earpiece to catch the drift of that message, relieved to hear the Old Man’s voice addressing the Union captain in a casualness that didn’t betoken hostility.

In his earpiece Declan could hear her talking about her boyfriend: 'He's cooking supper for me tonight, cod in cheese sauce out of a packet.

There was a double click in the radio earpiece built into his helmet.

Inside was a dry battery and a most peculiar instrument, something like a little flat telephone transmitter yet attached by wires to earpieces that fitted over the head after the manner of those of a wireless detector.

I told it to transmit a constant dial tone to the phone's earpiece and filter it from both the recording and the extension phone in my bedroom here in Nova Scotia.