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Defenition of the word phone

    • Defenition of the word phone

      • An electronic device used for calling people.
      • To contact someone using the telephone.
      • get or try to get into communication by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
      • a device 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"
      • (linguistics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
      • an instrument that converts sound into signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
      • 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"
      • electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
      • electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
      • get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

    Synonyms for the word phone

      • buzz
      • call
      • call up
      • cell phone
      • cellular phone
      • drop a dime on
      • earphone
      • earpiece
      • handset
      • headphone
      • headset
      • make a call
      • mobile phone
      • receiver
      • ring
      • sound
      • speech sound
      • telephone
      • telephone set
      • touchtone phone

    Similar words in the phone

      • phone
      • phone's
      • phoneme
      • phoneme's
      • phonemes
      • phonemic
      • phonemics
      • phonetic
      • phonetically
      • phonetician
      • phonetician's
      • phoneticians
      • phonetics
      • phonetics's

    Meronymys for the word phone

      • mouthpiece
      • phone system
      • receiver
      • telephone receiver
      • telephone system
      • utterance
      • vocalization

    Hyponyms for the word phone

      • call in
      • cell phone
      • consonant
      • desk phone
      • dial phone
      • dial telephone
      • earplug
      • extension
      • extension phone
      • French telephone
      • glide
      • handset
      • orinasal
      • orinasal phone
      • pay-phone
      • pay-station
      • phoneme
      • radiophone
      • radiotelephone
      • receiver
      • semivowel
      • sonant
      • speakerphone
      • telephone extension
      • telephone receiver
      • voiced sound
      • vowel
      • vowel sound
      • wireless telephone

    Hypernyms for the word phone

      • electro-acoustic transducer
      • electronic equipment
      • language unit
      • linguistic unit
      • telecommunicate

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