• on-hook and off-hook are two states of a communication circuit. On subscriber telephones the states are produced by placing the handset onto or off the...
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  • The off-hook tone (also off-hook warning, howling tone, or howler tone) is a telephony signal for alerting a user that the telephone has been left off-hook...
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  • 2002 Off the Hook (Xscape album), 1995 "Off the Hook" (Hardwell and Armin van Buuren song), 2015 "Off the Hook" (Jody Watley song), 1998 "Off the Hook",...
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    unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after having previously eaten Captain Hook's hand cut off by Pan. An iron hook that replaced his severed...
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    when the end instrument goes off-hook. An example would be a phone that automatically connects to emergency services on picking up the receiver. Therefore...
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    originator goes off hook, the other end transmits a short (140-290ms) off-hook signal and returns to on-hook. The originator detects the wink and then sends...
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  • Off the Hook is the second studio album by American R&B group Xscape. It was released on July 11, 1995, through So So Def Recordings and Sony Music Entertainment...
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  • Now Presents: Off the Hook is a compilation album from the Now That's What I Call Music! series, released on May 21, 2002. Unlike previous Now! compilations...
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  • Guy Off the Hook is a television series which began airing on Food Network in September 2008. The show is hosted by Guy Fieri and closely follows the...
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    roll-off trucks. There are two types of delivery trucks for the bins based on bin size, and they are: Hook lift bins and Roll-off bins. Roll-offs are commonly...
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  • introduced in Splatoon 2 (2017) as members of a pop music act known as Off the Hook (Japanese: テンタクルズ, Hepburn: Tentakuruzu, lit. "Tentacles"), who perform...
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    on the cradle, the telephone is said to be "on-hook", or ready for a call. When the handset is off the cradle, the telephone is said to be "off-hook"...
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    (the calling phone) goes off-hook. The PBX does not offer dial tone to the calling extension: it only detects on-hook or off-hook status. Voice over IP adapters...
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  • observed, and on some systems a fast busy signal follows the second reading of the message instead. (A busy or an Off-Hook may be used depending on the provider...
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  • work stitches on or off from either end. Because the hook has two ends, two alternating colors of thread can be used simultaneously and freely interchanged...
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  • Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams...
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    Telephone call (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    (i.e. the switch (A4) is open), and other components which are connected when the phone is "off hook". The off-hook components include a transmitter...
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  • other songs being covers of American R&B and rock and roll numbers, similar to the first album. On Dutch and German pressings of the album, the title...
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    had been found off the coast of Hook head, in the north Celtic Sea. An Irish company, Providence Resources had drilled test holes and were said to have...
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  • Off the Hook is a British sitcom about a group of freshers at university. It was first broadcast on BBC Three and BBC HD between 10 September and 22 October...
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    calling party and called party each had an indicator light on the cord circuit. When the subscriber cycled the telephone on-hook/off-hook, the light would...
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    device, such as a telephone, when an off-hook condition is detected. It indicates that the exchange is working and is ready to initiate a telephone call...
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  • caller has used up their allocated time to dial a number and must hang up, before the off-hook tone is played. In the mid 1950s through the early 1980s...
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  • "Rock the Party (Off the Hook)" is a song by American Christian metal band P.O.D. It was released in August 2000 as the second single from their third...
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    Answering machine (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    taking control by simply going off-hook itself, forcing the TAD (back) on-hook. Voice signals may simply be captured to and replayed from analogue media...
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  • Off the Hillbilly Hook is an extended play released by the American country music group Trailer Choir. It was released on June 9, 2009 via Show Dog Nashville...
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  • (usually to less than -10V off-hook, compared to -48V when on-hook) to begin billing for a call; a separate relay controlled ringing on the line. The black box...
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    Hook Island is one of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. The island is almost uninhabited, quite rugged and almost...
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    same material into which the hook fits. The hook and eye closure has a long history and is still used today, primarily on bras. This form of fastening...
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    under the ring name Hook (often stylized as HOOK) and is a member of The Opps. He is a former three-time and the final FTW Champion. On the November 25,...
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