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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Phone \Phone\, n. [Colloq. for {Telephone}.]
1. An instrument that converts sound into signals that can be
transmitted over distances and then converts received
signals back into sounds; a telephone; as, I talked to him
on the phone.
Syn: telephone, telephone set.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. (Phonetics) An individual sound unit of speech without
concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some
language. A speech sound.
Syn: speech sound, sound.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. A device for converting electric signals into sounds; it
is held over or inserted into the ear.
Syn: earearpiece, headphone, phone.
[WordNet 1.5]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "phone":
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
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