• (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
• United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
• United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
• United States golfer (1902-1971)
• American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)
• one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
• 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
verb
• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
• a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
• a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
• (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
• any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes
• (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern
• a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species
• any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation
• 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
verb
• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
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