English to English
phone
(f/oU/n
)
noun (n)
- electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds(noun.artifact)Example:
I talked to him on the telephone.
source: wordnet30 - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language(noun.communication)source: wordnet30
- Colloq. for Telephone.(noun)source: webster1913