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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



... Latin word numerus takes is number; in Spanish, nombre. The b makes no part of the original word, but has been inserted for the sake of euphony; or, to speak more properly, by a euphonic process. The word euphony is derived from [Greek: eu] (well), and [Greek: phone] (f[^o]nae, a voice). ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
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... Steve handed the phone back to the coastguardman and ordered, "Get the boys together and return to the ship, Smitty. Repeat their instructions. They don't know where they've been, and they don't know what ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
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... marvelous. He watched her bend down to pick up the phone without any clear idea of the meaning of the motions. The motions themselves were enough. Every curve and jiggle and bounce was engraved forever ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett
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... he whispered back over the phone. "Parsifal is a new idea in horses. Whenever he meets an automobile he goes to sleep and tries to forget it. Isn't that better than running away and dragging you to a hospital? There must be something ...
— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh
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... the outside world had of the terrible tragedy that was happening at Oracle came over the phone to Tucson while John Redpath was still ...
— The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds • Francis Flagg
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