phone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /fəʊ̯n/
• (US) IPA: /foʊ̯n/

Alternative forms

• 'phone (dated)

Noun

phone (plural phones)

1. 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.
   • Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
   • My phone ran out of battery.
   • There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.

Verb

phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)

1. (transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
   • Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.

Noun

phone (plural phones)

1. (phonetics) 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.

Anagrams

• nepho-, pheno-, pheon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɔn/

Noun

phone m (plural phones)

1. phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
2. (linguistics) phone

Verb

phone

1. inflection of phoner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative