Word

phone, n.
(phones)
freq. cnt. 13

electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 31 freq. cnt.: 18 freq. cnt.: 13

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

electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

earphone earpiece headphone phone

sample sentences

"it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"

semantic pointers

hypernym

electro-acoustic transducer

hyponym

earplug receiver, telephone receiver

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
<noun.communication> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

phone sound speech sound

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

sound sound

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

phonetic phonic phonetic phonic phonate

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

phonetics

hypernym

linguistic unit, language unit

part holonym

utterance, vocalization

hyponym

phoneme vowel, vowel sound semivowel, glide consonant orinasal phone, orinasal sonant, voiced sound