phonebook

plural phonebooks · alternative phone book

1. A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district.

   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.

   2007 June 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Doing the People's Business, in All Its Somnolent Glory”, in New York Times

2. broadlycomputingA large lookup table.

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

   2007 July 9, John Markoff, “Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles”, in New York Times

present singular third person phonebooks · participle present phonebooking · participle past phonebooked · past phonebooked · alternative phone book

1. transitiveKiwi FarmsTo 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).