What is "telephone receiver"

Usage examples of "telephone receiver".

The hole in the side would accommodate the plug of any standard telephone receiver.

The voice faded on that as the telephone receiver was snatched from Shelley.

He sat on the edge of the desk and picked up the telephone receiver.

A woman in her mid-thirties was holding up a pencil for attention as she rested a telephone receiver on her shoulder.

In the upper room he attached the wires from the storeroom to what looked like a piece of crystal and a telephone receiver.

He turned around as though to leave the telephone booth, looked through the glass, caught sight of one of the detectives, paused, turned his shoulder so that it concealed as much of his face as possible, lowered his head, picked up the telephone receiver and pretended once more to be telephoning.

She stood, her hand closed over the stem of the telephone receiver.

It came from the telephone receiver with such astounding clarity that Monk had been startled into glancing about, thinking it was made by some one in the booth with him.

Between the diaphragm of the telephone receiver and that of the phonographic microphone is fitted an air chamber of adjustable size, open to the outer atmosphere by a small hole to prevent compression.

At 10:30, all the way over in Farberville, Sergeant John Plover picked up the telephone receiver, dialed five or six numbers, then sighed noisily (which didn't matter, since he lived alone) and told himself to let his favorite chief of police cool off for a day or two.

Just like a telephone receiver being off the hook, you know-ruins the wavelength for all of us.