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)

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

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

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

To get in touch with by telephone.
To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
To make a telephone call to (a specific number): Phone 411 for directory assistance.

Origin:

Origin: Short for telephone

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

suffix