handset

English

Handset

Etymology

hand +‎ set

Noun

handset (plural handsets)

1. The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
   • 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 459:

     Helen hears the click of the handset at the other end of the line.

2. A mobile phone.
   • 2003, Geoff Varrall, Roger Belcher, 3G Handset and Network Design, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 311:

     Similarly, the handset can see more than one base station. Because the positions (longitude and latitude) of the base stations/Node Bs are known, then either a Node B or handset can work out the handset’s position.

Translations

the part of a telephone containing both receiver and transmitter, held in the hand

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 話筒／话筒 (zh) (huàtǒng), 话筒 (zh) (huàtǒng)

• Czech: sluchátko (cs) n
• Danish: telefonrør (da) c (not mobile phones)
• Finnish: luuri (fi), käsipuhelin (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: combiné téléphonique (fr) m, combiné (fr) m
• Italian: cornetta (it)
• Japanese: 受話器 (じゅわき, juwaki), 送受話器 (そうじゅわき, sōjuwaki)
• Polish: słuchawka (pl) f, aparat (pl) (mobile phone)
• Russian: телефо́нная тру́бка f (telefónnaja trúbka), тру́бка (ru) f (trúbka)

See also

• headset

Anagrams

• Hestand, handest, snathed