Phone

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  • noun. A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language.
  • noun. A telephone.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To make or try to make a telephone connection with; place a call to.
  • intransitive verb. To dial (a specific number).
  • intransitive verb. To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
  • intransitive verb. To telephone.
  • idiom. (phone it in) To do something in a perfunctory way or with little interest.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A sound; a vocal sound; a tone produced by the vibration of the vocal cords; one of the primary elements of utterance. See phonate, phonetic.
  • noun. A telephone: generally applied to the receiver, but sometimes to the whole apparatus.
  • To telephone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Colloq. for telephone.
  • noun. a speech sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A device for transmitting sound in real time across distances.
  • verb. To call (someone) on the telephone.
  • noun. A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
  • noun. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
  • noun. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
  • verb. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
  • Word Usage
    "I entered "replace existing phone" and the phone#/zip/SSN."
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    variant
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    verb-form
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