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1. 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 phone";
   - telephone, telephone set
    
2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
   - speech sound, sound
    
3. 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 phones that she disliked";
   - earphone, earpiece, headphone

1. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
   "I tried to phone you all night";
   - call, telephone, call up, ring

Derived forms: phoned, phones, phoning

Type of: electro-acoustic transducer, electronic equipment, language unit, linguistic unit, telecommunicate

Part of: phone system, telephone system, utterance, vocalization

Encyclopedia: Phone