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phone¹ Definition

phone (fōn)

noun

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

Etymology: Gr phōnē, a sound: see phono-

phone² Definition

☆ phone (fōn)

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb phoned, phon′·ing

telephone

phone Synonyms

phone

n.

telephone, receiver, radiophone; see telephone.

phone Usage Examples

Preposition: off

  • hook: It is better to leave the phone off the hook so they can hear what is going on.

Converse of object

  • please: In an emergency please phone the Police on 999.
  • answer: This means she cannot always answer the phone or send long emails back.
  • buy: Apparently, TV Licensing are also trying to get names & addresses of people buying mobile phones which are able to receive TV.

Adjective modifier

  • mobile: Twenty years ago there were no mobile phones, no DVDs, no computer games to speak of.
  • 3g: Europe's Biggest Selling 3G Phone Nokia said this week that the 3G 6650 phone will be Europe's biggest-selling 3G phone.
  • cellular: This is the digital age we mean the cellular phone.
  • cordless: The BT Glide is the first cordless phone to take advantage of Bluetooth to connect to a vast range of devices.
  • compatible: Compatible phones include all Nokia phones based on the Series 60 platform.

Modifies a noun

  • call: An e-mail will often prompt a phone call or an instant message.
  • mast: Phone masts appearing on constituents ' doorsteps has vividly brought home their lack of control over their local area.
  • number: Their phone number is nowhere to be found on their site.
  • bill: My phone bill is going to send me to my grave early.
  • line: The phone line was based in the Open Cafe in Victoria Road on the corner of Victoria Street, two streets above western road.
  • conversation: From scribbled notes on the back of an envelope during a phone conversation.

Noun used with modifier

  • cell: The blank card they are holding becomes the chosen card in the cell phone photo!
  • gsm: You will receive a local SIM card for your GSM phone or a local handset for Japan or Korea.
  • camera: What services do you offer for camera phone users?
  • satellite: The authorities are concerned about the long hours spent transmitting messages back home via satellite phone.
  • wireless: In these days of the Internet, online collaboration, wireless broadband and wireless phones, I could be working anywhere.
phone Quotes

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

—Thurber,James Grover

What really knocksme out isa book that, whenyou'reall done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)

   Phone for the fish knives,Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.

—Betjeman, SirJohn

You can see in pantomime the puppets fumbling with their slips of paper†seethem pickup their phone†see the noiseless, ceaseless capital of memoranda, in touch with Calcutta, in touch with Reykjavik, and always fooling with something.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

The Rev St John Froude put the phone down thoughtfully. The notion that he was sharing the house with a disembodied and recently murdered woman was not one that he had wanted to put to his caller. His reputation for eccentricity was already sufficiently widespread without adding to it.

—Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)

Browse dictionary entries near phone

  1. ‹ phonate
  2. ‹ phon-
  3. ‹ phon
  4. ‹ phoenix
  5. ‹ Phoenician
  6. ‹ Phoenicia
  7. ‹ Phoebus
  8. ‹ phoebe
  9. ‹ phocomelia
  10. ‹ Phocis
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