Phone — synonyms, definition

1. phone (Noun)

earphone earpiece headphone sound speech sound telephone telephone set

phone (Noun) — Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds. ex. "I talked to him on the phone"

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

phone (Noun) — Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear. ex. "it was not the typing but the phones that she disliked"

electro-acoustic transducer electronic equipment language unit linguistic unit consonant desk phone dial phone dial telephone earplug extension extension phone glide handset orinasal orinasal phone pay station pay-phone pay-station payphone phoneme radiophone radiotelephone receiver semivowel • • • mouthpiece receiver telephone receiver phone system telephone system utterance vocalization

2. phone (Verb)

call call up dial ring ring up

phone (Verb) — Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. ex. "I tried to phone you all night"

telecommunicate call in cell phone telephone telephony