phone
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Synonyms: prone, phony, hone, rhone, phono, pone, shone, phon, phane, phore, chone
Antonyms: prone, phony, hone, rhone, phono, pone, shone, phon, phane, phore, chone
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Noun
- A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
- My phone ran out of battery.
- There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
- A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
Verb
- To call (someone) using a telephone.
- Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
- Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
- To say via 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.
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