# phone
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /fəʊ̯n/
* (US) IPA: /foʊ̯n/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊn

### Etymology 1

Clipping of telephone; attested by 1884.

#### Alternative forms

* 'phone (dated)

#### Noun

phone (plural phones)
* 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.
    Hyponyms: cell phone, speakerphone, clamshell phone, flip phone, mobile phone, smartphone
    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.
* (colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
** 1994, Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate (song)
    It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume / Some skirts for the eve so I can get some phones / Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone

##### Derived terms

* airphone
* answer phone
* bag phone
* banana phone
* bar phone
* bat-phone
* batphone
* bat phone
* brick phone
* burner phone
* burn phone
* buzzer phone
* cameraphone
* camera phone
* camphone
* candlestick phone
* candy bar phone
* can I use your phone
* cardphone
* car-phone
* car phone
* carphone
* cell-phone
* cell phone lot
* cellular phone
* computerphone
* cordless phone
* cryptophone
* dataphone
* deskphone
* diaphone
* diphone
* doorphone
* door phone
* dumbphone
* earphone
* entryphone
* entry phone
* entry-phone
* eyephone
* featurephone
* feature phone
* flip-phone
* freephone
* Googlephone
* handphone
* have more chins than a Chinese phone book
* headphone
* hold the phone
* home phone
* house phone
* housephone
* I got 2 phones
* interphone
* iPhone
* isophone
* Jesus phone
* keyphone
* miniphone
* money phone
* multiphone
* netphone
* Obama phone
* on the phone
* pass the phone
* pay phone
* payphone
* phablet
* phlog
* phlogging
* phonable
* phone bank
* phone book
* phonebook
* phone booth
* phonebox
* phone box
* phonecall
* phone call
* phonecam
* phone card
* phonecard
* phoneful
* phone hacking
* phone home
* phone-in
* phone-in show
* phone jack
* phone jail
* phoneless
* phonelike
* phone line
* phonemaker
* phonemark
* phone monkey
* phone number
* phoneography
* phone-out
* phonepost
* phone sex
* phone-sex
* phone survey
* phone tag
* phone tree
* phoneward
* phonewise
* phoneword
* phone zombie
* phonicate
* phreak
* phreaking
* phub
* pick up the phone
* picturephone
* pocketphone
* polyphone
* pornophone
* rotary phone
* satellite phone
* satphone
* screenphone
* slide phone
* slider phone
* smart phone
* speakerphone
* stick phone
* superphone
* swivel phone
* symphonious
* textphone
* touch-phone
* touchphone
* touch phone
* trackerphone
* trap phone
* trimphone
* triphone
* ultraphone
* videophone
* viewphone
* visionphone
* visiphone
* watchphone
* webphone
* what is your phone number
* what's your phone number
* wireless phone
* world phone
* wristphone

##### Descendants

* → Burmese: ဖုန်း (hpun:)
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: फ़ोन (fon)
** Urdu: فون (fon)
* → Irish: fón
* → Persian:
** Dari: فون (fōn)
* → Portuguese: fone
* → Vietnamese: phôn
* → Welsh: ffôn

##### See also

* Thesaurus:phone

#### Verb

phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)
* (transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
    Synonyms: call, ring, telephone
    Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.

##### Derived terms

* phone ahead
* phone home
* phone in
* phone up

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

#### Noun

phone (plural phones)
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* phonal

##### Related terms

* phoneme
* phonetic
* phonetically
* phonetics
* phonology

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* nepho-, pheno-, pheon

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

phone m (plural phones)
* phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
* (linguistics) phone

### Verb

phone
* inflection of phoner:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.