handset
IPA: hˈændsɛt
noun
- The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
- A mobile phone.
- A hand-held device for remote control of a piece of equipment.
verb
- (typography) To typeset by hand.
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Examples of "handset" in Sentences
- Grasp the top of the handset, and pull it.
- The keyboard included a telephone handset.
- The handset listens for an available tower.
- Handset agnosticism is a major selling point.
- Button wind but with handset by finger pressure.
- The handset will be launched subsidized and exclusive.
- Handset is for voice communications with landing pilots.
- Only if the handset is on the base, will the phone ring .
- The Benefon Class was the first mobile phone with a cordless handset.
- But that kind of negates the convenience of the handset in the first place.
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