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Noun phone has 3 senses
  1. telephone, phone, telephone set - 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"
    --1 is a kind of electronic equipment
    --1 is a part of telephone system, phone system
    --1 has parts: mouthpiece; telephone receiver, receiver
    --1 has particulars:
     desk phone; dial telephone, dial phone; extension, telephone extension, extension phone; handset, French telephone; pay-phone, pay-station; radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone; speakerphone
    Derived form: verb phone1
  2. phone, speech sound, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
    --2 is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
    --2 is a part of utterance, vocalization
    --2 has particulars:
     phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound
    Derived form: verb phonate1
  3. earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone - 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"
    --3 is a kind of electro-acoustic transducer
    --3 has particulars: telephone receiver, receiver
,Verb phone has 1 sense
  1. call, telephone, call up, phone, ring - 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"
    --1 is one way to telecommunicate
    Derived forms: noun phone1, noun phoner1
    Sample sentences:
    Sam cannot phone Sue
    They phone
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