HANDSETS Synonyms

• a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

• a device that requires skill for proper use

• the means whereby some act is accomplished

• a person used by another to gain an end

• (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right

• the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

• any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds

• equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

• write an instrumental score for

• address a legal document to

• moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)

• sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

• a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

• a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

• migratory

• having transportation available

• capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

• affording change (especially in social status)

• electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

• (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

• electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear

• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

• electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

• transmitting speech at a distance

• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

• telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle