phone
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Clipping of telephone; attested by 1884.
Noun[edit]
phone (plural phones)
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
telephone — see telephone
See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)
- (transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
- Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
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to call (someone) on the telephone
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Noun[edit]
phone (plural phones)
- (phonetics) 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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Translations[edit]
speech segment
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
phone m (plural phones)
- phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
- (linguistics) phone
Verb[edit]
phone
- first-person singular present indicative of phoner
- third-person singular present indicative of phoner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
- second-person singular imperative of phoner
Further reading[edit]
- “phone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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