| busy (phone) |
| busy (phone) |
| looking after; help; aid; assistance |
| sponsor; manager; go-between; mediator; agent |
| conversation |
| fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth |
| public telephone; pay phone |
| (telephone) receiver |
| KDD; Japanese international telecommunications company |
| true story |
| interactive; interaction; conversation; dialogue |
| friendly (familiar) chat (talk) |
| sign language |
| folklore; legend; reminiscence |
| folklore |
| myth; legend |
| secret story; unknown episode |
| standing around talking |
| standing around talking |
| fairy-tale |
| talk; speech; chat; story; conversation; discussions; negotiation; argument |
| to accost a person; to talk (to someone) |
| discussion; conference |
| to discuss; to talk together |
| speaking voice; talking voice |
| to accost a person; to talk (to someone) |
| way of talking; speaking style |
| spoken language; colloquial expression |
| to be deep in talk |
| to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; to speak (a language) |
| discussion; conference |
| to discuss; to talk together |
| speaking voice; talking voice |
| spoken language; colloquial expression |
| to be deep in talk |
| topic; subject |
| a talk; conversation |
| telephone call; talking; calling; counter for telephone calls |
| long talk |
| telephone |
| telephone book; telephone directory |
| telephone instrument |
| mediator; manager |
| sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period) |
| gossip; chat |
| talk about divorce or separation |
| International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee; CCITT |
| night talks; evening tea parties |
| fable; allegory |
| anecdote; brief (comic) story |
| reminiscent talk |
| episode |
| Buddhist sermon |
| cordless telephone; wireless telephone |
| funny story |
| boastful speech; bragging |
| story not generally known; inside story; the real story (behind something) |
| while talking; the line is busy |
| person with whom to speak; someone to talk to; companion; advisor; adviser |
| while talking; the line is busy |
| person with whom to speak; someone to talk to; companion; advisor; adviser |
| art of conversation |
| tale; narrative |
| lounge |
| lecture; discourse |
| anecdote |
| telephone receiver or mouthpiece |
| telephone line |
| crank call; prank phone call |
| telephone counselling service |
| too good to be true stories (offers) (e.g. scams and frauds) |
| gossip |
| fairy-tale; nursery-tale |
| help; aid; assistance |
| thanks for taking care of me; thanks for taking care of my loved one |
| to receive favor (favour); to be much obliged to someone; to be indebted; to be grateful |
| to take care of |
| fairy-tale; nursery-tale |
| spooky tale; ghost story |
| ghost story; spooky story |
| trip story; vacation story |
| story; tale |
| story; tale |
| talking to oneself |
| talking to oneself |
| thank you for all your hard work |
| thank you for all your hard work |
| complaining |
| allegory; fable; parable |
| speaking fondly of |
| whispering |
| to speak slowly and quietly |
| tall story; cock-and-bull story |
| add-on telephone |
| Arabian Nights; The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights' Entertainments |
| Aesop's Fables |
| Internet telephony; Internet telephone |
| Greek mythology |
| Greek mythology |
| cordless phone |
| cellular phone |
| visual telephone; screen-phone |
| prepaid cellphone |
| mobile telephone |
| Roman mythology; Roman myths |
| anecdote; common talk |
| joke; anecdote |
| (a) short story; short-story writer |
| three way calling |
| care for people (patients) with bedpans, urinary bottles, etc. |
| common saying; common phrase; juicy (story) |
| idle gossip |
| international telephone number |
| simple matter; problem free; hopeless; the end (i.e. leaving one at a loss of words) |
| to be troublesome; to require the aid and labour of others |
| to be troublesome; to require the aid and labour of others |
| to receive favor (favour); to be much obliged to someone; to be indebted |
| to be annoying; to be troublesome |
| to take care of |
| to bother; to meddle; to poke one's nose (into another's business); to be too helpful |
| person who looks after others |
| perfectly dedicated wife |
| obliging person |
| a bother; a meddlesome person |
| to explain the situation |
| story whose theme is warm human relationships |
| talking with gestures |
| switchboard |
| switchboard number |
| conversation class |
| dialogue corpus (dialog); dialogue corpora |
| interactive mode |
| conversational processing |
| conversational language |
| conversational mode; interactive mode |
| legend |
| fairy-tale; nursery-tale |
| it's none of your business; it's not your concern |
| to poke one's nose (in) where one is not wanted |
| Mind your own business |
| confabulation; fabrication |
| good story |
| illustration |
| wordly story; gossip |
| conversation on worldly affairs; chat about everyday life (business) |
| get rich quick scheme |
| public telephone network |
| party line (telephone line shared by multiple subscribers) |
| inside information |
| secret talk |
| extension telephone |
| confidential talk; whispering |
| Izumo mythology |
| call-waiting (phone option) |
| creation myth |
| creation myth |
| subscribed telephone; subscription telephone |
| Norse mythology |
| desk phone |
| round table meeting or talks |
| silent mouthing |
| lipreading |
| telephone number at which person without a phone can be reached |
| telephone number at which person without a phone can be reached |
| telephone number at which person without a phone can be reached |
| sad story |
| gossip |
| gossip |
| talk about various topics |
| serious topic (of conversation) |
| landline phone; fixed phone (in contrast to mobile) |
| international call |
| international phone call |
| tales of one's travels |
| regional Bell operating company; RBOC |
| local telephone service |
| local telephone company |
| basic telephone service |
| conference call (phone option); conference calling |
| None of your business!; Don't bother me! |
| It's none of your business |
| thank you for all your hard work |
| boastful story |
| curiously enough; oddly enough; strange to tell |
| curiously enough; oddly enough; strange to tell |
| Mandarin (language) |
| dialogue form |
| interactive processing |
| interactive |
| interactive program |
| interactive |
| conversational mode; interactive mode |
| interactive mode |
| interactive |
| interlocutor |
| policy of using dialogue instead of confrontation |
| bedtime story |
| intra-city telephone call; local call |
| intra-city telephone rate; local-call rate |
| toll call |
| long-distance call |
| ghost story |
| help; aid; assistance |
| to receive favor (favour); to be much obliged to someone; to be indebted; to be grateful |
| to take care of |
| thanks for taking care of me; thanks for taking care of my loved one |
| fairy-tale; nursery-tale |
| ghost story; spooky story |
| trip story; vacation story |
| story; tale |
| telepathic communication |
| suspicious phone call |
| crank call; prank phone call |
| sad or tragic story |
| conversing from the heart; love story |
| speaking fondly of |
| friendly get-together |
| funny story |
| boastful story; big talk |
| sign language |
| sign-language interpret |
| confession; confidential talk; frank talk |
| confession; confidential talk; frank talk |
| person-to-person call; personal call |
| finger language; signing; sign language |
| episodic |
| mobile telephone; cellular telephone |
| mobile game |
| political dialogue |
| ordinary (daily life) conversation |
| Japanese Sign Language; JSL |
| Japanese speaker |
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (defunct) |
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; NTT |
| in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short |
| putonghua; standard (Mandarin) Chinese |
| inside story; confidential talk |
| private branch exchange; PBX |
| next-generation mobile phone |
| talking to oneself |
| native speaker |