switchboard

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These guys have to run over to fox holes laying or repairing wire from the switchboard during enemy fire.

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Quick take

(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of switchboard gathered in one view.

noun

(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

noun

(electrical engineering) A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.

verb

(transitive) To transmit or relay through, as if through, a switchboard.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for switchboard.

noun

(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

noun

(electrical engineering) A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.

verb

(transitive) To transmit or relay through, as if through, a switchboard.

Example sentences

These guys have to run over to fox holes laying or repairing wire from the switchboard during enemy fire.

Curious that the 'switchboard operator' is apparently a 'modern' enough occupation not to warrant an explanation.

To monitor a domestic phone conversion (which prior to digital exchanges the switchboard operator could listen into) requires a warrant to capture.

With the introduction of the phone, they tried using those boys as switchboard operators.

Reminds me of that story about why switchboard operators were women.

In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.

Similarly we don't talk to switchboard operators to enter URL in the browser addressbar.

They write their own file-manager (pantheon-files), their own window manager (gala, over mutter), their own configuration system (switchboard).

Funny, because I don't think many currently five year old kids will ever know what a switchboard operator did without websites like this teaching them.

The extensions which have a switchboard like interface enable the user to block requests based on the request's domain name, the primary frame's domain-name, and also the type of request.

I have however seen a slightly different breed of attack, where an attacker calls a victim (usually a switchboard attendant) and asks to be transferred to extension 9190.

They told us people keep calling them all the time hoping that 000 would take them to our switchboard so they were happy if we would take the phone number.

Quote examples

I find myself much more playing what Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, described as "switchboard operator": taking some input of an idea and routing it to the right person on our team.

If what it is like to be human, much less a bat, turns out to be empirically situated in the dense switchboard of the brain, what happens to Shakespeare, Swift, Woolf, or Wittgenstein when it comes to explaining ourselves to ourselves?" Nothing, of course.

Proper noun examples

Switchboard, Fisher, and WSJ are available (provided you have a few grand to spend), but they say they collected 5000 h of read speech from 9600 speakers..