phone
1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds (Freq. 13)
- I talked to him on the telephone
• Syn:
telephone, telephone set
• Derivationally related forms:
telephone (for: telephone)
• Hypernyms:
electronic equipment
• Hyponyms:
desk phone, dial telephone, dial phone, extension, telephone extension,
extension phone, handset, French telephone, pay-phone, pay-station, radiotelephone,
radiophone, wireless telephone, speakerphone
• Part Holonyms:
telephone system, phone system
• Part Meronyms:
mouthpiece, telephone receiver, receiver
2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
• Syn:
speech sound, sound
• Derivationally related forms:
sound (for: sound), phonic, phonetic, phonate
• Topics:
phonetics
• Hypernyms:
language unit, linguistic unit
• Hyponyms:
phoneme, vowel, vowel sound, semivowel, glide,
consonant, orinasal phone, orinasal, sonant, voiced sound
• Part Holonyms:
utterance, vocalization
3. 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
• Syn:
earphone, earpiece, headphone
• Hypernyms:
electro-acoustic transducer
• Hyponyms:
earplug, telephone receiver, receiver
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone (Freq. 7)
- I tried to call you all night
- Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Syn:
call, telephone, call up, ring
• Derivationally related forms:
ring (for: ring), phoner, telephone (for: telephone), telephoner (for: telephone), caller (for: call), call (for: call)
• Topics:
telephone, telephony
• Hypernyms:
telecommunicate
• Hyponyms:
cell phone, call in
• Verb Group:
call
• Entailment:
dial
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Sam cannot phone Sue
- They phone
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