answering machine

答录机,接听机,答疑器,答题器

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an electronic device that is attached to a telephone and that automatically answers callers with a prerecorded message and records their messages for later playback.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as invoice mail

Synonyms

autoattendant自动服务机,自动服务,自动服务员,自动取款机 telephone message storage电话信息存储,电话信息储存,电话留言存储,电话留言储存

Examples

An emergency dispatcher then called the woman but got her answering machine.
We are even allowed a glimpse into some of his most intimate relationships, thanks to never-erased answering machine messages – particularly with fellow artist Peter Hujar, whose life story was inextricably interwoven with his own.
He briefly had an answering machine, but he got rid of it because he got too many calls he didn’t want to return and he couldn’t claim not to know someone had called when he still had the machine.
I would never have said my family was rich—we seemed to be the last family I knew in the eighties to get a microwave and an answering machine—but maybe instead of a microwave, my parents wanted to go skiing.
The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.
They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
“If BMW is ‘the ultimate driving machine,’ your Anthem is the ultimate differentiator,” writes Hogshead.
At first, I am annoyed because answering these questions takes so much effort.
The resulting Wool Runners were comfortable, eco-friendly, machine-washable, and super cute—and sold out almost immediately.
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
Serrano closes by answering certain questions about prebends, curacies, etc.
A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.

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Examples

An emergency dispatcher then called the woman but got her answering machine.

We are even allowed a glimpse into some of his most intimate relationships, thanks to never-erased answering machine messages – particularly with fellow artist Peter Hujar, whose life story was inextricably interwoven with his own.

He briefly had an answering machine, but he got rid of it because he got too many calls he didn’t want to return and he couldn’t claim not to know someone had called when he still had the machine.

I would never have said my family was rich—we seemed to be the last family I knew in the eighties to get a microwave and an answering machine—but maybe instead of a microwave, my parents wanted to go skiing.

The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

“If BMW is ‘the ultimate driving machine,’ your Anthem is the ultimate differentiator,” writes Hogshead.

At first, I am annoyed because answering these questions takes so much effort.

The resulting Wool Runners were comfortable, eco-friendly, machine-washable, and super cute—and sold out almost immediately.

The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.

Serrano closes by answering certain questions about prebends, curacies, etc.

A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.