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    phone
    [fōn]
    noun
    phone (noun) · phones (plural noun)
    1. a telephone:
      "a few seconds later the phone rang" · "a receptionist answered the phone" · "a phone number"
    2. informal
      (phones)
      headphones or earphones.
    verb
    phone (verb) · phones (third person present) · phoned (past tense) · phoned (past participle) · phoning (present participle)
    1. call someone on the phone:
      "he phoned her at work" · "she phoned about twenty minutes ago"
      Similar:
      give someone a call/ring
      get someone on the phone
      get on the phone to
      make/place a call (to)
    Origin
    late 19th century: abbreviation of telephone.
    phone
    [fōn]
    noun
    phonetics
    phone (noun) · phones (plural noun)
    1. a speech sound; the smallest discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech.
    Origin
    mid 19th century: from Greek phōnē ‘sound, voice’.
    -phone
    [fəo͝on]
    combiningform
    1. denoting an instrument using or connected with sound:
      "megaphone"
    2. denoting a person who uses a specified language:
      "francophone"
    Origin
    from Greek phōnē ‘sound, voice’.
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    : telephone : a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language In an email follow-up to a phone interview, Bozak said Jane Jordan had the council’s support as well.
    [countable] the part of a landline phone that you hold in your hand and speak into (phonetics) a sound made in speech, especially when not considered as part of the sound system of a particular language compare phoneme to be using the phone He's been on the phone to Kate for more than an hour. She's on the phone at the moment.
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