Sentence:  Between the <WSD>telephone</WSD> and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord , and when the conversation came to an end , Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment , to his bathroom , where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds