Ring
Telephone
Telephone verb - To make a telephone call to.
Usage example: I'll try to telephone the office and make an appointment today
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Synonyms for Telephone
Ring is a synonym for telephone (British) in words topic. You can use "Ring" instead a verb "Telephone", if it concerns topics such as ring up, communicate through telephone system. popular alternative
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Stood Up: The voice of "Ring, Ring", who waits for hours by the telephone hoping for her lover to phone her.
Source: Music / Ring Ring - In the end he announces his victory by making every telephone in the world ring at once.
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Tempting Fate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a volcanic eruption (though natural disasters like that call for an evacuation, so how would that man still be there?) risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.
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