How To Use Switchboard In A Sentence
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Since he's everybody's official bigmouth, he can have the pleasure of playing switchboard for you club people from here on out.
STONE CITY
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The switchboard operator rang an extension.
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There are cordless phones that can be hooked up to company switchboards, using the same technology as home cordless phones.
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Since he's everybody's official bigmouth, he can have the pleasure of playing switchboard for you club people from here on out.
STONE CITY
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From the public call box he got beyond the snotty sounding WAAF at the switchboard.
THE OPEN DOOR
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One switchboard operator said that at this moment in time she didn't know.
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Callers jammed the switchboards of radio stations to express their shock at the fall from grace of a national hero after the news broke yesterday morning.
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He doesn't like using hotel switchboards to transmit orders.
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She began to study singing relatively late, at the age of 25, having been a telephone switchboard operator.
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Armand first tried Stanholme's office but, receiving no reply, he then rang the switchboard and asked the operator to bleep him.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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As manual switchboards were phased out after World War II, we started moving from analog to digital telephony.
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Callers were unable to get through to one of North Yorkshire Police's main switchboards when its telephone system was plunged into ‘chaos’ at the weekend.
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The switchboard operator is on duty from 6 to 9.
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Barbara will man the telephone switchboard till we get back.
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I was asked to work through to operate the telephone switchboard, and she was certainly very busy making dozens of calls.
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The Daily Dispatch switchboard was almost jammed yesterday as readers called to suggest their names for three lion cubs at the East London Zoo.
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Group Busy Tone is audible tone of telephone system that is indicated by low tone on the sleeve of trunk jacks at cord switchboards.
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Indeed, everyone can cite cases of knavish behaviour – the bloody-minded GP receptionist, a sullen council jobsworth or disobliging clock-watchers shutting down switchboards at 4. 55pm, regardless.
Loyal, public service merits more than this cold trashing
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I think she still believes there are ladies with headsets and twinsets plugging away at switchboards.
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There used to be a lot of more telephone switchboard operators around also, but technology made that job obsolete.
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Colonel Dumoulin compares them to highly trained switchboard operators.
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If you believe Melbourne breakfast radio, the whole city has gone nutso this morning in some sort of mass hysteria, melting down switchboards, wanting to know what that big noise/rumble was that woke them at 3 this morning.
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He actually worked in the centre of Birmingham on the emergency telephone switchboard.
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She runs seminars for IT and communications companies, working with staff who use the telephone a lot, such as switchboard operators, customer services teams and senior managers.
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I tried to phone you about 10 minutes ago to be told by your switchboard operator that there is no-one there by that name.
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I was totally overwhelmed and attempted to cope the best I could, as did the general hospital switchboard, with its extensions all manually connected through an operator in those days.
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The journey from the old days of the switchboard operator has certainly been a remarkable one.
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There was a shortage of switchboards, field wire, open wire, insulators, construction troops, and teletype machines.
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He went back to your hotel and had a very interesting chat with the switchboard operator.
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Inside the door, stored beneath the counter at the switchboard, is a humidor with an excellent cigar collection known only to the members.
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Since he's everybody's official bigmouth, he can have the pleasure of playing switchboard for you club people from here on out.
STONE CITY
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Last year the traffic on international telephone switchboards topped 100 billion for the first time.
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He said one of the major projects of the refit was the installation of a new electrical switchboard and associated cabling.
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But the switchboard told me it was the American ambassador.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pons is a specialized band of nerve fibers that links the midbrain with the medulla oblongata and acts as a high-functioning switchboard.
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He can't have forgotten all those calls go through the hotel switchboard.
COVER STORY
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The protective services department and the telephone switchboard operators also were notified.
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He began to write while earning his living as a translator, caretaker, switchboard operator, editor, and cook on an oil tanker.
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He asked to be connected to the central switchboard at London University.
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He asked to be connected to the central switchboard.
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Extra personnel were dispatched to the switchboard, and nonessential telephone calls were rerouted to voice mail boxes.
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Lonesome tells the story of a punch-press operator named Jim and a telephone switchboard operator named Mary who are desperately lonely, and then meet by chance during a holiday at Coney Island.
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It was an ordinary outer office of the golden-oak variety, with a railing of spindles separating a telephone switchboard and two typewriter desks from two public settles and a brass cuspidor.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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The devices were intended to tap phone lines used by the various governments, and were reportedly installed at the building's switchboard.
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They jammed telephone switchboards or left town, many just huddled on their front lawns in a state of fear, resignation or hysteria.
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Before dozens of Scottish chairmen phone the ground's switchboard to discover the secret of this apparent alchemy, they should realise Luton will gain nothing from the day except the fee for the rent of their pitch.
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I am the trainride and the cherry in the soapdish never talk to strange men or speak over the switchboard
Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
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Barbara will man the telephone switchboard till we get back.
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Suki started work at 16 as a post girl before becoming a switchboard operator and moving into the mobile phone market, and then moved on to broking deals which led to her doing her own thing and founding CCL.
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Remember when the telephone industry had switchboards and operators?
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What became of the traditional switchboard operator?
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Come on, there used to be ticket takers at the ferries, actual bank tellers for withdrawing money and a switchboard operator to assist you with making telephone calls.
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The paper also quoted an unnamed American contractor who had prepared a bid to install telephone switchboards at the Qatar base.
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Had the switchboard at the hotel connected her to the wrong room?
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Therefore, two channels were placed underneath the switchboard to facilitate the sliding motion.
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When she met the Respondent in 1982, she was working as a switchboard operator, a job she began sometime in 1979-1980.
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She is an international switchboard operator for British Telecom.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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Soon electronic brains would replace most of the accounting department, the typing pool, and the switchboard.
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From the public call box he got beyond the snotty sounding WAAF at the switchboard.
THE OPEN DOOR
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That's where the workers were, that's where the telephone switchboard was, that's where the suppliers were.
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This brief account leaves the impression that the central nervous system is little more than a set of cables running up and down, with something akin to a telephone switchboard in between.
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On the plus side, the system worked despite the switchboard and office phone system.
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Group Busy Tone is audible tone of telephone system that is indicated by low tone on the sleeve of trunk jacks at cord switchboards.
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By 1887 there were 26,000 telephones in use in Britain (and 150,000 in the United States) and multiple switchboards had been installed in most major towns and cities.
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Call the switchboard and ask for extension 410.
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Shortly after, when her telephone call for help is ignored by a gossiping switchboard operator, she meets her own end, on the blade of a bayonet.
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Aircraft radios are about as private as Tunes Square: it appeared that dozens of ground-based but air-minded Midlands enthusiasts had been listening in to my conversation with Birmingham radar and had jammed the switchboard at Cambridge ringing up to find out if Colin Ross was safe.
Rat Race
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The switchboard lit up for the Brighton area and people claimed that the devil had come to Earth to kill them all.
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He asked the switchboard operator to connect him with Whitely Prison and waited.
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As well as improvements to messes, major works included installation of new switchboards, an improved stern door, removal and cleaning of both propellers, hull survey work and the addition of tank deck drains.
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The devices were intended to tap phone lines used by the various governments, and were reportedly installed at the building's switchboard.
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He is also accused of telling a police switchboard operator, who'd recently been diagnosed with cancer, that he hoped she caught the disease.
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Armand first tried Stanholme's office but, receiving no reply, he then rang the switchboard and asked the operator to bleep him.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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I'd ring them up to complain but I'd never get past the switchboard operator before it stopped working again.
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People were out on the streets in a panic and I guess the CBS switchboard was jammed with calls.
52449_CLARA
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Mary is a secretary, but she doubles in brass as the company's switchboard operator.
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But the switchboard told me it was the American ambassador.
Times, Sunday Times
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During WW I field telephones and switchboards were developed.
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The theatre's switchboard operator re-routed his call.
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The tactical network consisted of satellite terminals, telephone switchboards and data network operation equipment.
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For many years I worked as a receptionist and switchboard operator at a busy company.
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Reaching for the phone, he asked to be connected to the central switchboard at London University.
GRACE
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the operator of the switchboard
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The portions of the operator's talking circuit that are located permanently in the switchboard cabinet are in such cases terminated in a jack, called an operator's _cut-in jack_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
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He asked to be connected to the central switchboard at London University.
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He dialled the switchboard and asked for the carabinieri post in Chioggia.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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Nevertheless, Levi is offering Opto Plus a switchboard operator and plenty of free jeans.
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He ask the switchboard operator to get him a number in germany.
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Communication between Earth and spacecraft is clunky and reminiscent of the days when switchboard operators had to plug in telephone lines by hand to connect the people at either end.
NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
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There are others who get their jollies by insulting switchboard operators, receptionists and secretaries.
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Ask the switchboard operator for an outside line.
