Phone

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phone
       n 1: 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}, {telephone set}]
       2: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without
          concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some
          language [syn: {speech sound}, {sound}]
       3: 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}]
       v : get or try to get into communication (with someone) by
           telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two
           aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: {call}, {telephone},
            {call up}, {ring}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "phone":
     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