Land Line (Noun)
Meaning
A telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits; "a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Due to the lack of cellular signal in the area, we were forced to rely on the land line for communication.
- The company's data center is connected to the internet via a high-speed land line.
- She preferred to make important calls from a land line, fearing that her cell phone signal would drop at any moment.
- The land line was the primary means of communication in the town, with many residents not even owning cell phones.
- In remote locations, a land line may be the only dependable means of receiving and making phone calls.