Phone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A telephone.
  • verb-intransitive. To telephone.
  • v. To get in touch with by telephone.
  • v. To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
  • v. To make a telephone call to (a specific number): Phone 411 for directory assistance.
  • n. A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A device for transmitting sound in real time across distances.
  • v. To call (someone) on the telephone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-and-verb-transitive. Colloq. for telephone.
  • n. a speech sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A sound; a vocal sound; a tone produced by the vibration of the vocal cords; one of the primary elements of utterance. See phonate, phonetic.
  • n. A telephone: generally applied to the receiver, but sometimes to the whole apparatus.
  • To telephone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
  • n. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
  • n. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
  • v. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
  • Verb Form
    phoned    phones    phoning   
    Variant
    telephone   
    Form
    phone it in    phone up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ring    call    telephone   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone   
    Unknown
    Technology   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    telephone    radio-    computer    camera    card    device    video    monitor    machine    PC