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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"

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.

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"

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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