telephone directory

DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.

To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.

“We called it the telephone directory,” his widow, Eda, told me.

They stuffed the leaflets into stamped envelopes and addressed the envelopes with names chosen randomly from telephone directories.