Dictionary Definition
phone
Noun
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
telephone" [syn: 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 [syn: 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 earphones that she disliked"
[syn: earphone,
earpiece, headphone] v : 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"
[syn: call, telephone, call up, ring]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of telephone.Pronunciation
- /ˈfoʊn/
- /"foUn/
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Translations
A device for transmitting sound (telephone)
- Arabic: (tilifūn) , (hātef)
- Armenian: հեռախոս (heŕaχos)
- Chinese: 電話, 电话 (diàn huà)
- Czech: telefon
- Dutch: telefoon
- Finnish: puhelin
- French: téléphone
- German: Telefon
- Greek: τηλέφωνο (tiléfono)
- Guarani: pumbyry
- Icelandic: sími
- Indonesian: telepon
- Interlingua: telephono
- Italian: telefono
- Japanese: 電話 (でんわ, denwa)
- Korean: 전화 (jeonhwa)
- Latvian: telefons
- Lithuanian: telefonas
- Polish: telefon
- Portuguese: telefone
- Romanian: telefon
- Russian: телефон (telefón)
- Sindhi: (Ddoor Vio)
- Slovak: telefón
- Spanish: teléfono
- Swahili: simu
- Swedish: telefon
- Telugu: ఫోను (phOnu)
Translations
- Arabic: (talfána)
- Armenian: հեռաձայնել (heŕadzaynel)
- Dutch: telefoneren
- Finnish: soittaa (puhelimella)
- French: téléphoner
- German: anrufen
- Greek: τηλεφωνήσει (tilefonísi)
- Guarani: mopumbyry
- Icelandic: hringja
- Interlingua: telephonar
- Indonesian: telepon
- Italian: telefonare
- Japanese: denwa
- Portuguese: telefonar
- Russian: позвонить по телефону (pozvonít’ po telefónu)
- Scottish Gaelic: fòn
- Sindhi: (Ddoor Vaainn)
- Slovak: telefonovať, zatelefonovať, volať, zavolať
- Spanish: telefonar
- Swedish: ringa, telefonera
Related terms
Etymology 2
Noun
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
speech segment
- Czech: hláska
Extensive Definition
Phonetic symbology is always set off within
[square] brackets.
See also
- Phoneme, a set of phones that are cognitively equivalent (the "same" sound or element of sign)
- Allophone, one phone of the many that constitute a phoneme
- List of phonetics topics
phone in Breton: Fonenn
phone in Czech: Hláska
phone in Danish: Sproglyd
phone in German: Phon (Linguistik)
phone in Estonian: Häälik
phone in Modern Greek (1453-): Φώνος
phone in Spanish: Fono
phone in French: Phone (linguistique)
phone in Croatian: Glas
phone in Italian: Fono
phone in Hungarian: Beszédhang
phone in Japanese: 単音
phone in Norwegian Nynorsk: Fon
phone in Polish: Głoska
phone in Portuguese: Fone
phone in Quechua: Kunkalla
phone in Slovak: Hláska
phone in Finnish: Äänne
phone in Swedish: Fon (lingvistik)
phone in Chinese: 語音
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
allophone, alveolar, amplitude, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, auditory
effect, auditory phenomenon, bilabial, buzz, cacuminal, call, call box, call up, cerebral, check, coin telephone, consonant, continuant, dental, desk telephone, dial, dial telephone, diphthong, dissimilation, earphone, epenthetic vowel,
explosive, extension, give a ring,
glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hang up, headphone, hold the phone,
hydrophone, idiophone, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, listen in, loudness, make a call, manner
of articulation, microphone, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mouthpiece, mute, nasal, noise, occlusive, optophone, palatal, parasitic vowel, pay
station, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
phoneme, plosive, prothetic vowel, public
telephone, push-button telephone, radiophone, radiotelephone, receiver, retroflex, ring, ring off, ring up, segmental
phoneme, semivowel,
sonance, sonant, sonority, sound, sound intensity level,
sound propagation, sound wave, speech sound, stop, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic
peak, syllable,
telephone, telephone
booth, telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone
mechanics, telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, transition sound,
transmitter,
triphthong, ultrasound, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless
sound, voicing, vowel, wall
telephone