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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
Rainbow Rowell

Meaning of "landline" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LANDLINE

landline  [lænd laɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LANDLINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Landline is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LANDLINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

landline

Landline

A landline telephone refers to a phone that uses a metal wire telephone line for transmission as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, which uses radio waves for transmission. In 2003, the CIA reported approximately 1.263 billion main telephone lines worldwide. China had more than any other country at 350 million and the United States was second with 268 million. The United Kingdom has 23.7 million residential fixed homephones. In 2008, the world had 1.27 billion fixed line subscribers.

Definition of landline in the English dictionary

The definition of landline in the dictionary is the phone you have in your house, as opposed to your mobile. Other definition of landline is a telecommunications wire or cable laid over land.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LANDLINE


airline
ˈɛəˌlaɪn
align
əˈlaɪn
aline
əˈlaɪn
Caroline
ˈkærəˌlaɪn
dateline
ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn
deadline
ˈdɛdˌlaɪn
decline
dɪˈklaɪn
headline
ˈhɛdˌlaɪn
hotline
ˈhɒtˌlaɪn
Klein
klaɪn
ligne
laɪn
line
laɪn
main-line
meɪn laɪn
offline
ˈɒfˌlaɪn
online
ˈɒnˌlaɪn
outline
ˈaʊtˌlaɪn
pipeline
ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn
skyline
ˈskaɪˌlaɪn
timeline
ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn
waterline
ˈwɔːtə laɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LANDLINE

landing net
landing party
landing speed
landing stage
landing strip
landing wheels
landladies
landlady
landless
landlessness
landlocked
landloper
landlord
landlordism
landlubber
landlubberly
landlubbing
landman
landmark
landmass

WORDS THAT END LIKE LANDLINE

A-line
banner headline
baseline
bloodline
bottom line
breadline
broadline
Childline
discipline
gasoline
hardline
hold the line
in-line
midline
on line
on the breadline
Pauline
postdeadline
redline
strandline

Synonyms and antonyms of landline in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «landline» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LANDLINE

Find out the translation of landline to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of landline from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «landline» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

座机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

teléfono fijo
570 millions of speakers

English

landline
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लैंडलाइन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهاتف الثابت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стационарный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

telefone fixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ল্যান্ডলাইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fixe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Talian darat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Festnetz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

地上の通信線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Landline
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điện thoại cố định
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லேண்ட்லைன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लँडलाईन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sabit hat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

telefono fisso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stacjonarny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стаціонарний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fix
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σταθερό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

landlyn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fast telefon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fasttelefon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of landline

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LANDLINE»

The term «landline» is very widely used and occupies the 19.604 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LANDLINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «landline» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «landline» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about landline

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5 QUOTES WITH «LANDLINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word landline.
1
Reed Hastings
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
2
Rainbow Rowell
A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
3
Rainbow Rowell
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
4
John Sununu
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
5
Kara Swisher
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANDLINE»

Discover the use of landline in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to landline and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Landline
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble.
Rainbow Rowell, 2014
2
Telephone Surveys in Europe: Research and Practice
The first part of this book deals with the coverage of landline and mobile phones in Europe.
Sabine Häder, Michael Häder, Mike Kühne, 2012
3
User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 18th ...
5.2 Calling Behavior for Each Day of the Week The total number of calls (the sum of all the made/received calls) by all subscribers in the landline (SL) and mobile ( SM) samples aggregated over all user models built for DL and DM for each day ...
Paul De Bra, Alfred Kobsa, David Chin, 2010
4
Robust Speaker-independent Bandwidth Extension for Mobile ...
The BWE alternative is to increase the sound quality of NB speech in terms of intelligibility and naturalness by probabilistically extrapolating the NB speech input to encompass a extended frequency range.
Harsha Modur Sathyendra, 2006
5
Submarine Fiber Optic Communications Systems
Landline revenue continued to fall in 2005, recording its fifth consecutive year of decline, and wireless continued to grow at double-digit rates. Total landline revenue in 2005 reached $192.3 billion, a 1.4 percent decrease over 2004; wireless ...
Hui Pan, Editor
6
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
Occasionally we met someone who talked positively about and swore by their landline, making incontestable points about its advantages for engaging in long conversations and once again we began to question why such things were hardly ...
Heather A. Horst, Heather Horst, Daniel Miller, 2006
7
India Weekly Telecom Newsletter
TRAI urges mobile operators not to charge more for cell-to-landline calls The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has observed that cellular service providers could be adversely affecting the usage of landlines by charging higher rates for ...
Hui Pan, Editor
8
Telecommunications Law in the Internet Age
Payment from Wireless-to-Landline Telephone for Access The second portion of the telecommunications industry in which the 1983 Access Charge Rules applied between 1984 and 1996 was in wireless—to—landline communications.
Sharon K. Black, 2001
9
What If Telecoms - Were the Key to the Third Industrial ...
The success of the mobile phone in countries with large populations such as China and India has been quick and easy, but the most interesting achievement is where the landline does not fare well – in Africa. It's there that the mobile phone ...
Jean-Michel Huet, Henri Tcheng, 2010
10
The Voter's Guide to Election Polls
As indicated earlier, most preprimary and preelection polls in 2008 will be conducted via landline telephone interviews. These polls are likely to use RDD techniques to reach those households that contain the voters to be interviewed. Here ...
Michael W. Traugott, Paul J. Lavrakas, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LANDLINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term landline is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Prawn Politics - Landline - ABC
PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Despite insatiable world demand for prawns, a new prawn farm has not been approved on Australia's East ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
Coconut Comeback - Landline - ABC
PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Here is our special report from the Solomons on how an Australian economist is helping the poor island nation ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
3
Nerd Chick Adventures: Should you ditch your landline phone …
REDDING, California - In these days of cellphones, voice-over-IP and Internet-based messaging, many people are canceling their landline ... «Redding Record Searchlight, Jul 15»
4
Perri Brackett: Hold the phone — cutting the landline is harder than it …
The landline telephone has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I am aware that we'll have our cellphones so I won't be ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
5
Phoning Home? Ily Reimagines the Landline as Smarter
Ilan Abehassera had a communication problem. As a father of three young children who traveled a lot, it was hard for him to stay in touch with ... «NewsFactor Network, Jul 15»
6
Don't Waste Your Money: Some landline users forced to switch to fiber
Millions of people have cut the cord, dropping their phone landline for cell phones, cable, or fiber. But now, people in some communities are ... «ABC Action News, Jul 15»
7
New in paperback: 'A Deadly Wandering,' 'Landline,' 'For …
Set in Los Angeles, "Landline" centers on Georgie McCool as she struggles to balance her career ambitions with her marriage and family. «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
8
Severed phone line disrupts Central Valley wireless, landline calls
Phone calls out of certain Central Valley counties are not going through due to a severed above-ground phone line in Stockton, according to ... «News10.net, Jul 15»
9
You Won't Believe What Verizon Is Doing to Keep Landline Customers
That's the only way to explain the legal but customer-unfriendly tactic it's using to keep landline customers from decamping for cheaper ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
10
TRAI told to clarify revenue impact of landline licence waiver
The panel has sought clarifications from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) after which final decision on the matter is likely to be ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»

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