A telephone directory (also called a telephone book, phone book and white/yellow pages) is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by name and address to be found.

Contents

• 1 Content
• 2 Types
• 3 Publication
• 4 History
• 5 Reverse directories
• 6 Rise and Decline of Free Online Telephone Directories
• 7 Phone books in popular culture
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 External Links
• 11 Further reading

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

   The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter - B. F. Westcott

2. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate. a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant

   That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located - H. Spencer

3. (intransitive) (colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle..

• local
• locus
• locality
• localization
• localize
• location
• locator

• Indexes (3)

• Area Codes (22)
• Mobile Phone (3)
• Postal Codes (27)

• Toll Free (3)
• White Pages (19)
• Yellow Pages (70)

• Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Books: Reference: Phone Directories (5)

• Infobel
  infobel.com
  International residence and business listings for most countries. Offered in multiple languages.
• InfoTaxi
  infotaxi.org
  Accurate taxi companies information directory and search engine providing phone numbers and urls worldwide.
• Addresses.com
  addresses.com
  Offers email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses and business listings.