Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A communications cable, as one used to transmit telephone or telegraph signals.
Wiktionary
- n. A fixed telephone communications cable.
- n. by extension a telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits
Examples
“Only when I call a landline which is almost never.”
“For the average Joe, having his own private cellphone with “flat rate” calling at $45/month trumps sharing a ball-and-chain landline at home with Mom, Dad, or the Wife and Kids.”
“The cheapest landline is about $25/month for no features after all the fees and taxes are added.”
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“According to the report, more than one out of every eight homes (13.3%) received all or almost all calls on wireless phones despite the fact that a landline is present.”
“After half an hour, he called her landline and got the answering machine.”
“I called her landline, her mobile, and got no answer, and then I called the set, as I was getting really concerned.”
“Keeter says the study, in which 130 people were called on cellphones because they don't have a landline, is among the most extensive of this age group.”
“You can reply to the text message to say that you can make it on the appointed date, but I suggest you call the landline, where you can verify that the text wasn't sent by a prankster.”
“I am a Verizon Wireless customer and my landline is D & E Communications (a small company that serves rural Pennsylvania).”
“Yesterday I pointed out that this arrangement was unnecessarily complicated, and suggested that he call the landline, just for a minute, and ask Fran to call him back using the cell.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘landline’.
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land phrases/words
how land is used
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Lines
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