Luxury vs Trimphone - What's the difference?
luxury | trimphone |
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
Something desirable but expensive.
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*:“[…] 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.
(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)
* 1986 , Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile (page 54)
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
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(en noun)- 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
- While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones