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Phone   /foʊn/   Listen
Phone

noun
1.
Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.  Synonyms: 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.  Synonyms: sound, speech sound.
3.
Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear.  Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, headphone.
verb
1.
Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone.  Synonyms: call, call up, ring, telephone.  "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"



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"Phone" Quotes from Famous Books



... postcard will have the most impact. A letter is better than a fax, a fax is better than a phone call, and a phone call is better ...
— United States Congress Address Book

... But then again, you can't never tell. That was four or five years ago, and the mem'ry of past favors grows dim fast. Still, if you're through waterin' the top of my desk, why I'd like t' set down and do a little real brisk talkin' over the phone. You're excused." ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber

... to the shadow—"Pretty cold," murmured the architect into the phone transmitter; it was fastened to the inside of the helmet, directly in front of his mouth, while the receiver was placed beside his ear. All three stopped short to adjust each other's electrical heating apparatus. To do this, they did ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint

... o'clock in the morning. Rick had been sleeping lightly, his rest broken by nightmares that he couldn't remember when he awoke. He got to the phone in the hall. "Just a minute," he said. "Let me get ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine

... "Phone Ballard and Dalton I want to see them at once. Tell Murphy I won't talk with him. What I said before I left was final. Write Cadwallader we can't do business on the terms he proposes, but add that I'm willing to continue his Mary Kinney lease. Dictate a letter to Riley's lawyer, telling ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine


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