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 Translation for 'to answer the phone' from English to Russian
поднять трубку [сов.]to answer the phone
подойти к телефону [сов.]to answer the phone
подходить к телефону [несов.]to answer the phone
телеком.
поднимать трубку
to answer the phone
Partial Matches
ответить [сов.]to answer
ответ {м}answer
3
отвечать [несов.]to answer
5
уклончивый ответ {м}evasive answer
возражать кому-л. [несов.] [особ. в дерзком тоне]to answer sb. back
телефон {м}phone
(телефонный) звонок {м}phone call
звонить [несов.] по телефонуto phone [telephone]
смартфон {м}smart phone
телеком.
раскладушка {ж} [разг.]
flip phone
телефонный номер {м}phone number
мобильный телефон {м}mobile phone [Br.]
телефонная будка {ж}phone box [Br.]
телеком.
сотовый телефон {м}
mobile phone [Br.]
мобильный телефон {м}cellular phone [Am.]
тот же (самый) {pron}the same
геогр.
Гималаи {мн}
the Himalaya
окружающая среда {ж}the environment
геогр.
Бронкс {м}
the Bronx
прошлое {с}the past
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Usage Examples English
  • Kennedy, Hoover's superior, had a direct telephone line installed between their offices, Hoover refused to answer the phone.
  • There is a perception that IVR is adopted because it allows companies to save money and allow the hiring of fewer employees to answer the phone.
  • Grandad goes to answer the phone, and Del and Rodney order him to hang it up, risking a huge telephone bill.
  • Another factor in the show's decline was the trend of fewer households having stay-at-home members available to answer the phone during the day.
  • Scorpia of "Computer Gaming World" described the game as being "too much like a novel", giving as example the need to answer the phone in the hotel room.

  • Bashing his head into a personal computer several times out of depression, he kills himself, only to answer the phone a moment later.
  • He was at Ouko's Koru home to answer the phone in Ouko's sitting room when Susan Anguka, his wife, called from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to tell him that the body had been found.
  • Aria tries to call the girls but they're now too scared to answer the phone.
  • Agony to answer the phone.
  • A few months later, Billy and Diana call Archie and Paddy to announce they are getting married. They try to call Sam but he is unable to answer the phone as he is busy in bed with his wife.

  • The phone rings in the MLA's house and Velu asks Uma to answer the phone.
  • Ivo was the first to answer the phone and therefore immunized himself from being nominated this week.
  • The boy attempts to answer the phone, but is advised not to.
  • The video, recorded by Rigoberto Castañeda, shows Julieta entering an apartment where she carelessly throws her keys to a wooden table, removes her pink jacket placing it on a chair in the hallway and hurries to answer the phone, accidentally breaking a long, white vase in the process.
  • Despite their compatibility, Ted continues to answer the phone, which results in another encounter at MacLaren's.

  • When Marsters received a phone call, he depended on others to answer the phone and mouth the words to him so he could read lips, after which he would reply on the telephone.
  • A half-keyboard is a specially designed and programmed keyboard used in limited space situations or when the typist needs a hand free to answer the phone, hold documents, etc.
  • We see in the movie that even toy guns are prohibited on the station, and that the communications port in an apartment is used for both the television receiver and the telephone –Frank has to mute the television to answer the phone next to it.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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