Network and Telephone

Network

Network verb - Communicate with and within a group.

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Telephone and network are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telephone" instead the word "Network" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: networked, networking

Telephone verb - To make a telephone call to.

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Network and telephone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Network" instead the word "Telephone" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: telephoned, telephony, telephonist, telephonic, telephoning

sentient	sentient network	sentient telephone
old	old network	old telephone
public	public network	public telephone
regular	regular network	regular telephone
Other adjectives: large, telepathic, private, personal, new, giant, soviet, cellular, wireless, interstellar, intergalactic.

Alice is the technician who came to connect Bob's previously unplugged and non-functional telephone to the network.

Source: Phoney Call
This is allowed through what would now be called an extremely successful hack of the telephone and information network (the book predates the internet).

Source: Confess in Confidence
For example, when telephones were adopted, their value increased with every new telephone added to the network.

Source: Bandwagon Fallacy

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