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English noun: phone | |||
| 1. | phone (artifact) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | ||
| Samples | I talked to him on the telephone. | ||
| Synonyms | telephone, telephone set | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | electronic equipment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | desk phone, dial phone, dial telephone, extension, extension phone, French telephone, handset, pay-phone, pay-station, radiophone, radiotelephone, speakerphone, telephone extension, wireless telephone | ||
| Part holonym | mouthpiece, receiver, telephone receiver | ||
| Part meronym | phone system, telephone system | ||
| 2. | phone (communication) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | ||
| Synonyms | sound, speech sound | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | language unit, linguistic unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | consonant, glide, orinasal, orinasal phone, phoneme, semivowel, sonant, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound | ||
| Part meronym | utterance, vocalization | ||
| Domain category | phonetics | ||
| 3. | phone (artifact) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | ||
| Samples | It was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked. | ||
| Synonyms | earphone, earpiece, headphone | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | electro-acoustic transducer | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | earplug, receiver, telephone receiver | ||
English verb: phone | |||
| 1. | phone (communication) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | ||
| Samples | I tried to call you all night. Take two aspirin and call me in the morning. | ||
| Examples | Sam cannot phone Sue , They phone | ||
| Synonyms | call, call up, ring, telephone | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | telecommunicate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | call in, cell phone | ||
| Entail | dial | ||
| Verb group | call | ||
| Domain category | telephone, telephony | ||
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