Definition of Phone
Noun: phone fown
- 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 phone";
- telephone, telephone set
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- speech sound, sound
- 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 phones that she disliked";
- earphone, earpiece, headphone
- Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
"I tried to phone you all night";
- call, telephone, call up, ring
See also:
phonations
phonebook
Anagrams containing the word phone