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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Phone

· IPA /foʊ̯n/
01 n. An instrument that converts sound into signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; …
  1. 1.
    An instrument that converts sound into signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; a telephone; as, I talked to him on the phone.
  2. 2.
    An individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. A speech sound.(Phonetics)
  3. 3.
    A device for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear.
Syn. telephone, telephone set. — Syn. -- speech sound, sound. — Syn. -- earearpiece, headphone, phone.
02 v. t. To get or try to get into communication with, using a telephone; as, I phoned him this morning.
  1. 1.
    To get or try to get into communication with, using a telephone; as, I phoned him this morning.
    “E. T. phone home.” — E. T. (the movie)
Syn. call, telephone, call up, ring.