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Meaning of phone

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  phone
      n 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}, {phone},
           {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: {phone}, {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}, {phone}]
      v 1: 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}, {phone}, {ring}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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