What some people call receivers, are really handsets. Some people even call their entire phone a receiver. When you pick up the handset, you go off-hook . When you hang up, you go on-hook . A lot of our current telecom vocabulary is based on the parts of ancient phones, like the candlestick above.
Some phones have buttons labeled flash and some fax machines have hook buttons.
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