phone cord
Definition
- Noun:
- The telephone wire that connects to the handset: A flexible, insulated cable with connectors on each end, used to physically link a telephone handset (the part you hold to your ear and mouth) to the base unit of a landline telephone, enabling the transmission of electrical signals for voice communication.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The phone cord was tangled, so I spent a few minutes untwisting it before I could make a call.
- When the handset stopped working, I checked and found that the phone cord had been chewed by the puppy.
- Older landline phones often had a coiled phone cord that stretched when you walked around the room.
Advanced Usage
- "to be tethered by a phone cord": To be physically limited in movement by the length of the cord, often used metaphorically to describe a lack of freedom or mobility associated with older technology.
- Before cordless phones, you were always tethered by a phone cord during a conversation.
Variants and Related Words
- Telephone cord: A more formal synonym for "phone cord."
- Handset cord: A more specific term focusing on the connection to the handset.
- Coiled cord: Describes the specific spring-like shape of many traditional phone cords.
- Line cord: Refers to the separate cord that connects the telephone base unit to the wall jack.
Synonyms
- Telephone wire (specifically for the handset connection)
- Handset cable
Related Phrases
- Tangled cord: A common situation where the cord becomes twisted and knotted.
- Every office in the 1990s seemed to have a phone with a tangled cord.
- Cord stretch: The action of pulling on the coiled cord to extend its reach.
- She used the full cord stretch to answer the phone from the kitchen.
Notes on Usage
- The term "phone cord" is primarily associated with landline telephones and is becoming less common with the widespread adoption of cordless and mobile phones.
- It specifically denotes the cord for the handset, not the cord that connects the phone base to the wall outlet (which is typically called a "line cord" or "telephone line cable").
Noun
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the telephone wire that connects to the handset
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