phone

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəʊ̯n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /foʊ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn, -oʊn

Clipping of telephone.

phone (plural phones)

1. A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.

• speakerphone

• phone sex
• phone tag

• Thesaurus:phone

phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)

1. (transitive) To call (someone) on the telephone.

• call, ring, telephone

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

phone (plural phones)

1. (phonetics) 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.

• phonetic
• phonetically
• phonetics
• phonology
• phoneme

• nepho-, pheno-, pheon

• IPA^(key): /fɔn/

phone m (plural phones)

1. phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
2. (linguistics) phone

phone

1. first-person singular present indicative of phoner
2. third-person singular present indicative of phoner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
5. second-person singular imperative of phoner

• “phone” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).