phone
phone Lexical Profile
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• noun
A telecommunications device, such as a landline telephone or a mobile smartphone, used to transmit and receive sound and digital data over a distance.
"Please silence your phone before the orchestra begins its performance."
An earphone or headphone worn over or inside the ear to listen to audio privately (usually used in the plural).
"The sound engineer put on his studio phones to monitor the recording levels closely."
Any distinct speech sound or gesture in phonetics, considered as a physical event regardless of whether its exact acoustics change the meaning of a word in a particular language.
"In phonetics, an aspirated consonant is analyzed as a specific phone rather than a broad phoneme."
• verb
To contact, call, or speak to someone using a telephone.
"She phoned the clinic this morning to reschedule her dental appointment."
• Rhymes for phone
Word Origin & Etymology
Originating in the late 19th century as a shortened form of 'telephone', ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek 'phōnē', meaning 'voice' or 'sound'. In linguistics, the sense denoting an individual speech sound was borrowed directly from the same Greek root.