'Phone' definitions:
Definition of 'phone'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: telephone, phone, telephone set]
noun
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language [syn: phone, speech sound, sound]
noun
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" [syn: earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone]
verb
Definition of 'Phone'
From: GCIDE
- Phone \Phone\, n. [Colloq. for Telephone.]
- 1. An instrument that converts sound into signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; a telephone; as, I talked to him on the phone.
- Syn: telephone, telephone set. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. (Phonetics) An individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. A speech sound.
- Syn: speech sound, sound. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. A device for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear.
- Syn: earearpiece, headphone, phone. [WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'phone'
From: GCIDE
- phone \phone\, v. t. To get or try to get into communication with, using a telephone; as, I phoned him this morning.
- Syn: call, telephone, call up, ring. [PJC]
- E. T. phone home. --E. T. (the movie) [PJC]
Synonyms of 'phone'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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