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  1. noun A telephone.
  2. intransitive verb To telephone.
  3. transitive verb To get in touch with by telephone.
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  • Further, the associate told us that regardless of whether the phone is a 3G or original iPhone, it would be replaced with a same-generation phone (forget trying to upgrade without upgrading your current contract).
  • She stiffened and turned away from him as the phone was answered, but sagged as a recorded message informed her that Lucian and Leigh weren't available and to try again later. —  Lynsay Sands - [Argeneau 09] - Vampire, Interrupted
  • The fourth call started the same way, a ring tone, a quick transfer, a long pause, then a wheezing acknowledgement as the phone was answered deep in the bowels of some grimy file room.
  • We even glimpse it live if a videocam or camera phone is at the scene. —  Crosswalk.com - Home
  • - Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Email / IM, Smartphones As our expectations of the new phone from Palm set to be announced this Thursday skyrockets, John Biggs over at CrunchGear says he's got a source that says the phone is a full QWERTY slider with a large touch screen. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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telephone ·  radio ·  computer ·  camera ·  card ·  device ·  video ·  monitor ·  machine ·  pc ·  communication ·  screen

Used in the same contextWord Family

phone:   phones ·  phoned ·  phoning
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Short for telephone.
  2. Greek phōnē, sound, voice; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek φωνή, a sound, tone, sound of the voice (of man or brute), voice, speech, cry, etc., any articulate sound, vowel or consonant (later restricted to vowels as opposed to consonants), also the faculty of speech, language, a language, dialect, also a report, rumor, etc., from √ φα in φήμη, speech, report, etc., = Latin fama, etc.: see fame, fable.
  2. Abbr. of telephone, n.
  3. Abbr. of telephone, v.
 

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