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Switchboard

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Switchboard meaning

The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient. | A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.

Example sentences (20)

Every sale will see £1 donated to Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline, which operates 24/7, 365 days a year.

This switchboard/telephone apparatus, invented by Bruce County’s Elhanans Bowman, is featured in a new ‘Made in Bruce’ exhibit that opens Jan.

Witnesses told The Associated Press that it appeared that an electrical switchboard caught fire on the ground floor, which was also used for the parking of around 80 motorbikes and bicycles, sending thick smoke billowing through the building.

Eve Galloway: "I worked on the switchboard there in the 70's Maud Matrons secretary, the great porters we used to have such fun with them.

It felt so real more than 30,000 people complained to the BBC switchboard in an hour as furious parents claimed their children had been left petrified.

Switchboard operators handling the phone contact with Layan had immediately notified ambulance workers that the little girls needed to be rescued.

The works will include the replacement of two existing transformers and the switchboard within the Witney substation compound.

In fact, he was handling the switchboard while director Sundar C was filming (2003), when he convinced the dialogue writing team to include him in a scene.

Marie Scott, 92, worked as a switchboard operator at Southwick Park, the underground headquarters based in the cliffs outside Portsmouth from where the D-Day landings were monitored.

The switchboard still works.

The Victorian Government has awarded community health organisation Switchboard an $80,000 grant to continue its work supporting LGBTI seniors.

One of the various definitions of a telegraph operator is a person who operates a telephone switchboard.

They provide an online volunteer application form, which allows students to sign up for opportunities they may be interested in. For starting and joining clubs, the SAITSA Switchboard is also available online.

Aftermath Corporal W. Nichorster of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals examines the telephone switchboard in the underground bunker of a German radar station at Beny-sur-Mer.

A single switchboard could handle up to 10,000 lines.

Capital's switchboard was jammed with callers wanting to know when the song was going to be released – on one occasion Everett aired the song 36 times in one day.

Caserta admitted to waiting until late Saturday night to dial the Landmark switchboard, only to learn that Joplin had instructed the desk clerk to get rid of all her incoming phone callers after midnight.

He saw the possibility of making a documentary film about the dam and when his initial contract ended, in order to prolong his time at the dam, moved to the post of telephone switchboard operator.

Small towns typically had the switchboard installed in the operator's home so that he or she could answer calls on a 24 hour basis.

The switchboard is usually designed to accommodate the operator, who sits facing it.