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noun(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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"I talked to him on the telephone"nounelectronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
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"it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"nounelectro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the eartype of:
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verbget or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephonetype of:
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call sound ring telephone extension receiver glide vowel earpiece speakerphone consonant headphone handset earphone phonetic earplug phoner phonic speech sound linguistic unit language unit vowel sound semivowel phoneme orinasal phone orinasal voiced sound sonant phonate telephone set electronic equipment french telephone wireless telephone desk phone radiotelephone dial phone dial telephone extension phone pay-phone pay-station telephone extension radiophone electro-acoustic transducer telephone receiver call up telecommunicate call in cell phone