Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A telephone.
- v. To telephone.
- v. To get in touch with by telephone.
- v. To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
- v. To make a telephone call to (a specific number): Phone 411 for directory assistance.
- n. A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sound; a vocal sound; a tone produced by the vibration of the vocal cords; one of the primary elements of utterance. See phonate, phonetic.
- n. A telephone: generally applied to the receiver, but sometimes to the whole apparatus.
- To telephone.
Wiktionary
- n. A device for transmitting sound in real time across distances.
- n. A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
- v. To call (someone) on the telephone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Colloq. for telephone.
- n. a speech sound.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- n. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- n. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
- v. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
Etymologies
- Short for telephone.Greek phōnē, sound, voice; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“I entered "replace existing phone" and the phone#/zip/SSN.”
“$_POST [ 'city']; $zip = $_POST [ 'zip']; $phone = $_POST [ 'phone']; $fax = $_POST [ 'fax'];”
“- Long Zheng was quick to dig around in last night's updated Zune software, and quick to find reference to a % phone% (good work, btw!), and this just a day after Microsoft denied publically to Mary Jo Foley that the Zune update had anything to do with Zune/phone.”
“Firstly, what is the last time you called this contact by phone, and by using what phone#”
“For instance, if your project is to change your plumbing, the next action will be "look up phone number of the plumber in the agenda @phone" and not "call the plumber".”
“But possibly solitary confinement and juggling the kiddy porn and the coin phone is just to much for a special person like yourself to handle.”
“In most Euro countries, wiretapping your phone is a purely administrative trick, with no messy judicial intervention.”
“The cost of the phone is the last of it; you also have to add in the cost of a required service plan you might not have otherwise bought, the cost of any apps you buy and - most important - the opportunity cost of not being able to switch to a better phone for another two years without paying early-termination fees.”
The Washington Post: Windows Phone 7 presents a big gamble, for Microsoft and consumers
“That's why, according to Nielsen, the first they thing look for in a phone is a QWERTY raised keyboard, as opposed to touch screens.”
The Washington Post: Post Tech: Teens text every 10 minutes, Nielsen says
“Agreed ... you call them your friends for a reason, my phone is always on and if any one of my friends needed anything day or night I would be there, have been there, and will always be there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phone’.
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phono-, phon-, -phony
relating to sound
phonograph, phonics, phonology, telephony, phoneme, phone, telephone, phonautograph, phonetic, phonebook, phonography, phonolite and 107 more...
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Phones
Compare with "phono-, phon-, -phony"
(a list specifically "relating to sound") by hap_e_wordnik.
I'm just phoning it in these days (obviously).phone, telephone, tisiphone, homophone, allophone, xylophone, metallophone, polyphone, persephone, phoneme, anglophone, phoney and 7 more...
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