phone
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊ̯n/
The English word “phone” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
- A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
verb
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
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