phone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
French -phone
French téléphonebor.
English telephone
English phone
Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.
Inflected forms:
form: phones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'phone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: phones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: phoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: phoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: 'phone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 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
gloss: To call (someone) using a telephone.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
"You bloody fools!" shrieked Nickle, stung by a sudden dreadful inspiration, "we've let him phone. He has got through!"
It wasn’t like he was dying to get it off his chest. I think he only phoned because he knew how excited I’d be to hear about it.
Synonyms: phone
telephone
blower
pipe
Ameche
dog and bone
horn
Derived words: airphone
answer phone
bag phone
banana phone
bar phone
basic phone
batphone
bat phone
bat-phone
brick phone
burner phone
burn phone
buzzer phone
camera phone
cameraphone
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
door phone
doorphone
dumbphone
earphone
entry phone
entryphone
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
interphone
iPhone
isophone
Jesus phone
keyphone
miniphone
money phone
multiphone
netphone
Obama phone
on the phone
pass the phone
payphone
pay phone
phablet
phlog
phlogging
phonable
phoneaholic
phone bank
phone book
phonebook
phone booth
phone box
phonebox
phonecall
phone call
phonecam
phone card
phonecard
phone case
phone-free
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
phoneputer
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
portable phone
rotary phone
satellite phone
satphone
screenphone
slide phone
slider phone
smart phone
softphone
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
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