Definitions for: Phone


[n] 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"
[n] 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"
[n] (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
[v] get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"



Synonyms: call, call up, earphone, earpiece, headphone, ring, sound, speech sound, telephone, telephone, telephone set

See Also: call in, consonant, desk phone, dial, dial phone, dial telephone, electro-acoustic transducer, electronic equipment, extension, extension phone, French telephone, glide, handset, language unit, linguistic unit, mouthpiece, orinasal, orinasal phone, pay-phone, pay-station, phone system, phoneme, radiophone, radiotelephone, receiver, semivowel, sonant, telecommunicate, telephone extension, telephone receiver, telephone system, utterance, vocalization, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound, wireless telephone

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