telephone line

English

Noun

telephone line (plural telephone lines)

1. The infrastructure which allows a single telephone to be connected to the network and conduct independent calls.

   We're going to have to get a second telephone line installed at our house, because the teenagers spend so much time talking to their friends.

Synonyms

• phone line

Translations

infrastructure which allows a single telephone to be connected to a network

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電話線／电话线 (zh) (diànhuàxiàn), 电话线 (zh) (diànhuàxiàn)

• Crimean Tatar: telefon yolağı
• Finnish: puhelinlinja (fi)
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• French: ligne téléphonique (fr)
• Hungarian: telefonvonal
• Irish: líne teileafóin f
• Russian: телефо́нная ли́ния f (telefónnaja línija)