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phone n. [
telephone, telephone set] electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"
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phone v. [
call, telephone, call up, ring] get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
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phone n. [
speech sound, sound] (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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phone n. [
earphone, earpiece, headphone] electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"
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