Synset

electronic 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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phone

telephone

telephone set

sample sentences

"I talked to him on the telephone"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

telephone

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

phone

semantic pointers

hyponym

desk phone dial telephone, dial phone extension, telephone extension, extension phone handset, French telephone pay-phone, pay-station radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone speakerphone

hypernym

electronic equipment

part meronym

mouthpiece receiver, telephone receiver

part holonym

telephone system, phone system