phone

Phone is short for telephone, meaning the instrument used to call others.

(noun)

An example of a phone is a telephone in your house.

To phone is short for to telephone, meaning to call someone using a telephone.

(verb)

An example of phone is to call your mom using a cell phone.

Phone is defined as a certain type of sound.

(suffix)

  1. An example of phone used as a suffix is a telephone, an instrument to transmit sound.
  2. An example of phone used as a suffix is a saxophone, a musical instrument.

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See phone in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Phonet. any single speech sound considered as a physical event without reference to its place in the structure of a language

Origin: Gr phōnē, a sound: see phono-

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb phoned, phoning

telephone

  1. a device producing or transmitting sound: saxophone, megaphone
  2. a telephone: interphone

Origin: < Gr phōnē, a sound: see phono-

See phone in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A telephone.
verb phoned phoned, phon·ing, phones
verb, intransitive
To telephone.
verb, transitive
  1. To get in touch with by telephone.
  2. To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
  3. To make a telephone call to (a specific number): Phone 411 for directory assistance.

Origin:

Origin: Short for telephone

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noun
A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language.

Origin:

Origin: Greek phōnē, sound, voice; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots

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suffix
  1. Sound: homophone.
  2. Device that receives or emits sound: geophone.
  3. Speaker of a language: Anglophone.

Origin:

Origin: From Greek phōnē, sound, voice; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots

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