Noun
- 1. telephone, phone, telephone set, electronic equipment
- usage: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"
- 2. phone, speech sound, sound, language unit, linguistic unit
- usage: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- 3. earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone, electro-acoustic transducer
- usage: 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"
Verb
- 1. call, telephone, call up, phone, ring, telecommunicate
- usage: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
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