Crossword clues for handset
handset
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handset \handset\ n. (Electronics) The mouthpiece and earpiece of a communications device mounted on a single handle; as, when the telephone rings, pick up the handset.
Syn: French telephone.
Wiktionary
n. The part of a telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
WordNet
n. telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle [syn: French telephone]
Wikipedia
On a wired telephone, the handset is a device that a user holds to the ear to hear the audio sound through the receiver. Since the 1920s, handsets usually also contain the phone's transmitter (microphone) which is positioned close to the mouth. In earlier telephones the transmitter was mounted directly on the telephone itself, which often was attached to a wall at a convenient height.
A handset with transmitter and receiver in one unit is also called a transceiver.
Until the advent of the cordless telephone, the handset was usually wired to the base unit, typically by a flexible tinsel wire.
A cordless telephone uses a radio transceiver as its handset, and a radio transceiver, wired to the telephone line, as a base station. In a mobile telephone, the entire unit is usually a radio transceiver that communicates through an outdoor base station located at a cell site. Some mobile telephones that can be carried in cars, trucks, and buses look exactly like household telephones, except that their bases are usually screwed or bolted to the interior of the vehicle.
Usage examples of "handset".
Fontaine replaced the handset on the cradle a blossom of fire erupted from the centermost gun.
Instead everyone was handed a prerecorded multichannel handset with descriptions of the Sherman Tree and points of interest along the Congress Trail.
She picked up the telephone, clamping the handset down into its cradle with her thumb, and rotated it around, looking at all the tiny little switches and jacks and plugs and connectors.
He heard the watchkeepers moving around the open bridge, the occasional murmur of voices over handsets and pipes as the ships played follow-my-leader across an empty ocean.
Punch up Cosmo and Ziplock on the tracker file, then e-mail their patterns to my handset.
Scirio made and took a number of calls to others elsewhere over a handset, but otherwise nobody spoke.
And then the handset beside the bed beeped gently, echoed an instant later by a louder buzz from the media console.
We discussed the way we would communicate between the two groups--whether it would be by com ms cord, which is simply a stretch of string that can be pulled in the event of a major drama, or by field telephone, a small handset attached to a piece of two flex D10 wire running along to the next position.
The harbormaster acknowledged the message and Goode replaced the radio handset.
The white screen shifted, displayed voicemail codes, and she lifted the handset to hear the words.
Each time the cellphone brrred, however, he would grab the handset, turn his back, and speak in hushed tones into the mouthpiece.
There were beeps and boops on the line, and one high pitched, echoing whine that made him hold the handset away from his ear, grimacing.
Lucas did a quick peek, saw nothing, and heard Allport screaming, “Gun,” into his handset, and at the same time saw Del rolling off the porch and onto his feet, and then he was onto the stairs, moving up, felt Del behind him as a shadow, shouted, “Watch along the railing, watch .
The spacecraft's main controls were set out before her: an artificial horizon, handsets for attitude controls, communications and monitoring gear.
Marc carried the equipment to his chair by the fire, plugged the helmet into its energy source, and fiddled with the handset.