phone

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   A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.

   • Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
   • My phone ran out of battery.
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   A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.colloquial

   • It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume / Some skirts for the eve so I can get some phones / Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone

syn. phone · telephone · blower · pipe · Ameche · dog and bone · horn

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   To call (someone) using a telephone.ambitransitive

   • Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
   • Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
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   To say via telephone.

   • Well, the first I knew, Mr. Cooney phoned he had a buyer for my farm, and wanted to know if he could come down.
   • After I wrote the 23ⁿᵈ bout midnite Charles phoned he got my note + could I come over then?

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   A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

syn. phone · telephone · blower · pipe · Ameche · dog and bone · horn