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Telephone vs Trimphone - What's the difference?

telephone | trimphone |

As nouns the difference between telephone and trimphone

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

telephone

English

(wikipedia telephone)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).
  • (US) Chinese whispers.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013
    • , date=October 27 , author=Erik Adams , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “The PTA Disbands” , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping “purple monkey dishwasher” into the chain. }}

    Synonyms

    * blower, phone, farspeaker, Ameche (slang), dog and bone (slang), horn (informal) * See also

    Derived terms

    * mobile telephone * public telephone * telephone book * telephone box * telephone call * telephone conference * telephone tag * telephonic * telephony

    Verb

    (telephon)
  • To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone ??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}

    Synonyms

    * call, drop a line, phone, ring * See also

    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