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Luxury vs Trimphone - What's the difference?

luxury | trimphone |

As nouns the difference between luxury and trimphone

is that luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings while trimphone is (uk) a luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.

As an adjective luxury

is very expensive.

luxury

English

(wikipedia luxury)

Noun

(luxuries)
  • Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
  • Something desirable but expensive.
  • *
  • *:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
  • Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.

    • Antonyms

    * (dispensable thing) necessity

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very expensive
  • not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.

    • Related terms

    * luxuriant * luxuriate * luxurious * luxuriously

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    trimphone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.
  • * 1983 , New Scientist (volume 98, number 1353, 14 April 1983)
    • Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated
  • * 1986 , Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile (page 54)
    • While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones