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Noun phone has 3 senses
- telephone, phone, telephone set - 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"
--1 is a kind of electronic equipment
--1 is a part of telephone system, phone system
--1 has parts: mouthpiece; telephone receiver, receiver
--1 has particulars:
- 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
--2 is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
--2 is a part of utterance, vocalization
--2 has particulars:
- earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone - 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"
--3 is a kind of electro-acoustic transducer
--3 has particulars: telephone receiver, receiver
Verb phone has 1 sense
- call, telephone, call up, phone, ring - 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"
--1 is one way to telecommunicate
Sample sentences:
Sam cannot phone Sue
They phone
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