Area Code

Unfamiliar area-code meant I couldn't remember the last digits properly. ❋ Melted_snowball (2007)

For these area-code clingers, those 10 little digits provide a constant in the face of changing locations and uncertain futures. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It just says that if a guy moves from his cell phone to his office phone to his vacation home and goes across area-code lines, we can follow that. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A.J. Daulerio at Gawker sports blog Deadspin posted the controversial celebrity's 310-area-code cell phone number this afternoon, writing, Let's Stage A Citizen's Intervention. ❋ Kashmir Hill (2011)

A Tory source said Mr. Harper will keep a busy travel schedule and pay frequent visits to the so-called 416- and 905- area-code regions of Greater Toronto. ❋ STEVEN CHASE (2011)

Natural ordering in many ways like telephone numbers (country-code, area-code, local-code, number) or IP address ❋ Unknown (2010)

Again using our area-code analogy, think of being able to route all calls based on only looking at an area code, versus having to look at the entire phone number. ❋ JonathanBlock (2008)

Harper was making a deliberate show of strength in an important market, area-code 418, where the Conservatives are poised to sweep Quebec City and be very competitive with the Bloc Québécois in the rest of eastern Quebec, a region where the Liberals are not even in the game. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That suggests, to me, that Massa had second thoughts between yesterday and this afternoon — whether due to his own reconsideration, or due to a little nudge (” If ya ever wanna see da wife ‘n kids again …”) from a 312 area-code phone call, I have no idea. ❋ Unknown (2010)