Definition of Phone

1. Verb. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. "They phone "; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

Exact synonyms: Call, Call Up, Ring, Telephone
Category relationships: Telephone, Telephony
Specialized synonyms: Cell Phone, Call In
Entails: Dial
Generic synonyms: Telecommunicate
Related verbs: Call
Derivative terms: Call, Caller, Phoner, Ring, Telephone, Telephone, Telephoner

2. Noun. Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds. "I talked to him on the telephone"

3. Noun. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.
Exact synonyms: Sound, Speech Sound
Category relationships: Phonetics
Generic synonyms: Language Unit, Linguistic Unit
Group relationships: Utterance, Vocalization
Specialized synonyms: Phoneme, Vowel, Vowel Sound, Glide, Semivowel, Consonant, Orinasal, Orinasal Phone, Sonant, Voiced Sound
Derivative terms: Phonate, Phonetic, Phonetic, Phonic, Phonic, Sound, Sound

4. Noun. Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear. "It was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"
Exact synonyms: Earphone, Earpiece, Headphone
Specialized synonyms: Earplug, Receiver, Telephone Receiver
Generic synonyms: Electro-acoustic Transducer

Definition of Phone

1. n. & v. t. Colloq. for Telephone.

Definition of Phone

1. Noun. A device for transmitting sound in real time across distances. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To call (someone) on the telephone. ¹

3. Noun. (linguistics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phone

1. to telephone [v PHONED, PHONING, PHONES] - See also: telephone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phone

phonascetics
phonasthenia
phonate
phonated
phonates
phonathon
phonathons
phonating
phonation
phonations
phonatory
phonautogram
phonautograms
phonautograph
phonautographs
phone (current term)
phone-in
phone-in show
phone-ins
phone bill
phone book
phone books
phone booth
phone booths
phone box
phone boxes
phone call
phone calls
phone card

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