Phone

Noun

 * 1) A device for transmitting sound in real time across distances.

Verb

 * 1)  To call (someone) on the telephone.

Synonyms

 * call
 * ring
 * telephone

Derived terms

 * phone it in
 * phone up

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Related terms

 * phonetic
 * phonetically
 * phonetics
 * phonology
 * phoneme

Thesaurus
allophone, alveolar, amplitude, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, bilabial, buzz, cacuminal, call, call box, call up, cerebral, check, coin telephone, consonant, continuant, dental, desk telephone, dial, dial telephone, diphthong, dissimilation, earphone, epenthetic vowel, explosive, extension, give a ring, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hang up, headphone, hold the phone, hydrophone, idiophone, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, listen in, loudness, make a call, manner of articulation, microphone, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mouthpiece, mute, nasal, noise, occlusive, optophone, palatal, parasitic vowel, pay station, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phoneme, plosive, prothetic vowel, public telephone, push-button telephone, radiophone, radiotelephone, receiver, retroflex, ring, ring off, ring up, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonance, sonant, sonority, sound, sound intensity level, sound propagation, sound wave, speech sound, stop, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, telephone, telephone booth, telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone mechanics, telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, transition sound, transmitter, triphthong, ultrasound, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, wall telephone

Etymology
Shortening of telephone:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: тэлефон
 * Bulgarian: телефон
 * Catalan: telèfon
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: (din6waa6)
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: telefon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Telephon,  Fernsprecher
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: pumbyry
 * Hindi: फ़ोन, टेलीफ़ोन,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: telephono
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Khmer: តេឡេហ្វូន
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Telefon, Telephon
 * Macedonian: телефон
 * Navajo:
 * Persian:, دورواژ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sindhi: (Ddoor Vio)
 * Slovak: telefón
 * Sotho: mohala,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఫోను (phOnu)
 * Thai: โทรศัพท์
 * Ukrainian: телефон
 * Urdu: ٹیلیفون, فون
 * Vietnamese:, dây nói
 * Welsh: ffôn

Verb

 * Arabic: (talfána)
 * Armenian: (zangel)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 打電話, 打电话
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: (puhelimella)
 * French:, appeler
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, τηλεφωνώ
 * Guaraní:
 * Hindi: फ़ोन करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: telephonar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 電話をかける, 電話する


 * Korean: 전화를 걸다, 전화하다
 * Luxembourgish: telefonéieren, uruffen
 * Persian: دورواژیدن, تلفن کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, chamar
 * Russian: звонить, позвонить (по телефону po telefónu), телефонировать  /
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sindhi: (Ddoor Vaainn)
 * Slovak:, , ,
 * Spanish:, llamar por teléfono
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: โทร
 * Urdu: فون کرنا
 * Vietnamese: gọi điện thoại, gọi điện, kêu điện thoại
 * Welsh:

Related terms

 * phone sex
 * phone tag

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Estonian: häälik,
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: foghar


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) phon (a unit of apparent loudness)