Dictionary definition · phone
noun
- 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"
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- 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"
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone"I tried to call you all night"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).