"hookswitch" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hook",
        "3": "switch"
      },
      "expansion": "hook + switch",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hook + switch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hookswitches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hookswitch (plural hookswitches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 August 20, Douglas Martin, “Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "At 4 or 5, he learned to dial by using the hookswitch like a telegraph key.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The spring-loaded button on a telephone that is depressed by the action of returning the handset to the cradle, thus terminating the call."
      ],
      "id": "en-hookswitch-en-noun-SiVMZU1I",
      "links": [
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "handset",
          "handset"
        ],
        [
          "cradle",
          "cradle"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "switchhook"
        },
        {
          "word": "hook switch"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "telephone button to terminate the call",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gancho"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "telephone button to terminate the call",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "klyka"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hookswitch"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hook",
        "3": "switch"
      },
      "expansion": "hook + switch",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hook + switch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hookswitches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hookswitch (plural hookswitches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 August 20, Douglas Martin, “Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "At 4 or 5, he learned to dial by using the hookswitch like a telegraph key.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The spring-loaded button on a telephone that is depressed by the action of returning the handset to the cradle, thus terminating the call."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "handset",
          "handset"
        ],
        [
          "cradle",
          "cradle"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "switchhook"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hook switch"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "telephone button to terminate the call",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gancho"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "telephone button to terminate the call",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "klyka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hookswitch"
}