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phone

English

  1. 🔊 (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
  2. 🔊 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”
  3. 🔊 electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds
    “it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked”
  4. 🔊 get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
    “I tried to call you all night”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fon phone

Similar words

earphone earpiece headphone telephone telephone set speech sound sound call telephone call up ring allophone alveolar amplitude apico-alveolar apico-dental articulation aspiration assimilation auditory effect auditory phenomenon bilabial buzz cacuminal