About The Word Phone

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Phone

Phone Meaning & Definition
Phone Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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 | Synonyms for Phone: call | call up | earphone | earpiece | headphone | ring | sound | speech sound | telephone | telephone | telephone set

Related Terms | Find terms related to Phone: allophone | alveolar | amplitude | apico-alveolar | apico-dental | articulation | aspiration | assimilation | auditory effect | auditory phenomenon | bilabial | buzz | cacuminal | call | call box | call up | cerebral | check | coin telephone | consonant | continuant | dental | desk telephone | dial | dial telephone | diphthong | dissimilation | earphone | epenthetic vowel | explosive | extension | give a ring | glide | glottal | glottalization | guttural | hang up | headphone | hold the phone | hydrophone | idiophone | labial | labialization | labiodental | labiovelar | laryngeal | lateral | lingual | liquid | listen in | loudness | make a call | manner of articulation | microphone | modification | monophthong | morphophoneme | mouthpiece | mute | nasal | noise | occlusive | optophone | palatal | parasitic vowel | pay station | peak | pharyngeal | pharyngealization | phoneme | plosive | prothetic vowel | public telephone | push-button telephone | radiophone | radiotelephone | receiver | retroflex | ring | ring off | ring up | segmental phoneme | semivowel | sonance | sonant | sonority | sound | sound intensity level | sound propagation | sound wave | speech sound | stop | surd | syllabic nucleus | syllabic peak | syllable | telephone | telephone booth | telephone engineering | telephone extension | telephone mechanics | telephone receiver | telephonics | telephony | transition sound | transmitter | triphthong | ultrasound | velar | vocable | vocalic | vocoid | voice | voiced sound | voiceless sound | voicing | vowel | wall telephone

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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