Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A telephone.
- intransitive verb To make or try to make a telephone connection with; place a call to.
- intransitive verb To dial (a specific number).
- intransitive verb To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
- intransitive verb To telephone.
- idiom (phone it in) To do something in a perfunctory way or with little interest.
- noun A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sound; a vocal sound; a tone produced by the vibration of the vocal cords; one of the primary elements of utterance. See phonate, phonetic.
- noun A telephone: generally applied to the receiver, but sometimes to the whole apparatus.
- To telephone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Colloq. for
telephone . - noun (Phonetics) a speech sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device fortransmitting sound in real time acrossdistances . - verb transitive To
call (someone) on thetelephone . - noun linguistics 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- noun electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- noun electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
- verb get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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- Long Zheng was quick to dig around in last night's updated Zune software, and quick to find reference to a % phone% (good work, btw!), and this just a day after Microsoft denied publically to Mary Jo Foley that the Zune update had anything to do with Zune/phone.
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$_POST [ 'city']; $zip = $_POST [ 'zip']; $phone = $_POST [ 'phone']; $fax = $_POST [ 'fax'];
Webmaster-Talk.com Charles1718 2010
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- Long Zheng was quick to dig around in last night's updated Zune software, and quick to find reference to a % phone% (good work, btw!), and this just a day after Microsoft denied publically to Mary Jo Foley that the Zune update had anything to do with Zune/phone.
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I entered "replace existing phone" and the phone#/zip/SSN.
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Firstly, what is the last time you called this contact by phone, and by using what phone#
MSDN Blogs raffael 2009
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For instance, if your project is to change your plumbing, the next action will be "look up phone number of the plumber in the agenda @phone" and not "call the plumber".
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Firstly, what is the last time you called this contact by phone, and by using what phone#
MSDN Blogs 2009
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But possibly solitary confinement and juggling the kiddy porn and the coin phone is just to much for a special person like yourself to handle.
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In most Euro countries, wiretapping your phone is a purely administrative trick, with no messy judicial intervention.
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The cost of the phone is the last of it; you also have to add in the cost of a required service plan you might not have otherwise bought, the cost of any apps you buy and - most important - the opportunity cost of not being able to switch to a better phone for another two years without paying early-termination fees.
Windows Phone 7 presents a big gamble, for Microsoft and consumers Rob Pegoraro 2010
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