noun
intercom
a communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc
In a sentence
Six example sentences with intercom, each labelled with its topic.
The renovation hid an intercom panel behind the oak paneling so the hall would keep its original look.
Architecture
The captain's voice crackled over the intercom to announce a two hour delay on the tarmac at Heathrow.
Travel
We replaced the failing intercom with a wireless unit that still rings the kitchen when someone presses the gate button.
Technology
The producer pressed the intercom and told the drummer, still in the booth, to try the bridge half a beat slower.
Music
A voice on the ward intercom called the on-call doctor to bay four, and two nurses were already moving.
Medicine
In the submarine thriller every order crackles through the intercom, so the audience never sees the captain's face.
Movies
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