ALL meanings of phone
phone
P p - transitive verb phone call on the telephone 1
- intransitive verb phone make telephone call 1
- noun plural phone headphones 1
- noun phone a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”. 1
- verb with object phone to speak to or summon (a person) by telephone. 1
- verb with object phone to send (a message) by telephone. 1
- verb without object phone to send a message by telephone. 1
- singular noun phone The phone is an electrical system that you use to talk to someone else in another place, by dialling a number on a piece of equipment and speaking into it. 0
- countable noun phone The phone is the piece of equipment that you use when you dial someone's phone number and talk to them. 0
- singular noun phone If you say that someone picks up or puts down the phone, you mean that they lift or replace the receiver. 0
- verb phone When you phone someone, you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone. 0
- noun phone a single uncomplicated speech sound 0
- noun phone telephone 0
- noun phone any single speech sound considered as a physical event without reference to its place in the structure of a language 0