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| NOUN | 1 | phone, telephone, telephone set | Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds |
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| 2 | phone, speech sound, sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | |
| 3 | phone, earphone, earpiece, headphone | Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds | |
| VERB | 1 | phone, call, telephone, call up, ring | Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone |
| Sounds | fow'n |
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| Rhymes | acetone, allophone, alone, and 122 more rhymes in own... |
| Meaning | Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds. |
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| Examples | "I talked to him on the telephone" |
| Synonyms | telephone, telephone set |
| Part of | telephone system, phone system |
| Parts | mouthpiece; telephone receiver, receiver |
| Broader | electronic equipment |
| Narrower | desk phone; dial telephone, dial phone; extension, telephone extension, extension phone; handset, French telephone; pay-phone, pay-station; radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone; speakerphone |
| Verbs | phone |
| Meaning | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. |
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| Synonyms | speech sound, sound |
| Part of | utterance, vocalization |
| Category | phonetics |
| Broader | language unit, linguistic unit |
| Narrower | phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound |
| Adjectives | phonic; phonetic; phonetic, phonic |
| Verbs | phonate |
| Meaning | Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds. It is held over or inserted into the ear. |
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| Examples | "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" |
| Synonyms | earphone, earpiece, headphone |
| Broader | electro-acoustic transducer |
| Narrower | telephone receiver, receiver |
| Meaning | Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | Sam cannot phone Sue; They phone |
| Synonyms | call, telephone, call up, ring |
| Similar to | call |
| Category | telephone, telephony |
| Broader | telecommunicate |
| Narrower | cell phone; call in |
| Entails | dial |
| Entailed by | hang on, hold the line, hold on |
| Nouns | phoner; phone |
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