phone

Speech parts

1. phone - Noun

2. phone - Verb

Meaning

get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

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

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

call ring telephone call up earpiece headphone earphone speech sound blackberry telegraph dial horn mobile phone name get

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Antonyms

confused donor disconnect hang up put down the phone put the phone down

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Hypernyms

telecommunicate linguistic unit electronic equipment language unit electro-acoustic transducer

Hyponyms

consonant extension receiver vowel glide radiophone

Phrases with the word

landline phone pick up a phone put down the phone put the phone down make a phone call phone tapping

Anagrams

pheon pheno

Examples

Your cell phone has already replaced your watch, camera, calendar, and alarm clock. Don't let it replace your family. Source: Internet

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. Fran Lebowitz

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Jack Kerouac

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. Nick Hornby

Don't chat on the phone - a talker is a great find for a spy. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

phonautogram phonautograph phonautographic phone ahead phone back phone bank