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語源

From phone +‎ book.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/

名詞

phonebook (plural phonebooks)

1. A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district.
   • 2007 June 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Doing the People's Business, in All Its Somnolent Glory”, in New York Times‎:

     One even proposes, in a workaday monotone, that the first hundred people in any Idaho phonebook could do just as well as the legislators at making decisions in the capital.

2. (by extension, computing) A large lookup table.
   • 2007 July 9, John Markoff, “Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles”, in New York Times‎:

     He does this by using the Domain Name System, or DNS, which is the phonebook for the Internet.

下位語

• white pages
• yellow pages

派生語

動詞

phonebook (third-person singular simple present phonebooks, present participle phonebooking, simple past and past participle phonebooked)

1. (Kiwi Farms) To determine the identity of (an Internet user) by comparing personal information to real-world directories or databases (e.g., lists of people in phonebooks or relatives of those who have recently died).