phone
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. French télé- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. French -phone French téléphonebor. English telephone English phone Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.
Definitions
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances,…
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
- My phone ran out of battery.
- There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
A person's telephone number (as a means of contact)
A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
- It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume / Some skirts for the eve so I can get some phones / Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone
To call (someone) using a telephone.
- Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
- Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
- "You bloody fools!" shrieked Nickle, stung by a sudden dreadful inspiration, "we've let him phone. He has got through!"
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A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as…
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymphone
- synonymtelephone
- synonymblower
- synonympipe
- synonymAmeche
- synonymdog and bone
- synonymhorn
- neighbordevice
- neighborcell phone
- neighborcellular
- neighborcellular phone
- neighborcordless phone
- neighbordial phone
- neighbordumbphone
- neighborfeature phone
- neighborflip phone
- neighborfoldable phone
- neighbormobile
- neighbormobile phone
Derived
airphone, answer phone, bag phone, banana phone, bar phone, basic phone, batphone, bat phone, bat-phone, brick phone, burner phone, burn phone, buzzer phone, camera phone, cameraphone, camphone, candlestick phone, candy bar phone, can I use your phone, cardphone, car phone, car-phone, carphone, cell-phone, cell phone lot, cellular phone, computerphone, cordless phone, cryptophone, dataphone, deskphone, diaphone, diphone, door phone, doorphone, dumbphone, earphone, entry phone, entryphone, entry-phone · +115 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at phone. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at phone. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at phone
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA