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Definition of Cell phone
1. Verb. Call up by using a cellular phone. "If the train is late, I will cell phone you"
Generic synonyms: Call, Call Up, Phone, Ring, Telephone
Derivative terms: Cellphone
Definition of Cell phone
1. Noun. A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cell Phone
Literary usage of Cell phone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"... by cell phone. "Listen, go through the park; it's open to cars after three
... cell phone ..."
2. More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa : Report by Anthony Lake, Christine Todd Whitman (2006)
"When foreign manufactures refused to ship a cell phone tower to the Kinshasa
airport due to rebel activity, he hired local men to collect scrap metal to ..."
3. Cruising the Mediterranean: A Guide to the Ports of Call by Larry H. Ludmer (2006)
"And now, the question everyone is asking, "What about my cell phone?" One of the
nice things about cruising has been that, for the most part, you're free of ..."
4. The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving by Charles W Wessner (2006)
"This would not be as minor a change as it might seem, for it would improve cell
phone service significantly in suburbs, where resistance to the placing of ..."
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