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Meaning phone meaning

What does phone mean?
Definitions in simple English

phone Noun

— A phone is a tool for speaking to people who are far away. Can I borrow your phone? I need to call my friend. The phones ringing. Can you answer it? "Goodbye!" she said, and put the phone down. — A phone is a smartphone. This classroom does not allow students to use their phones during class.

phone Verb

— If you contact somebody using a phone, you phone them. Hey, I'll phone you tonight and we can decide what to do. I phoned up my friend and asked her to come over at 8:00.

phone

— noun (= telephone) 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 — verb (= call, telephone) 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 — noun (= sound) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language — noun (= earphone) 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

Synonyms phone synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as phone?

phone English » English

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Topics phone topics

What do people use phone to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Telephone
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Call

  • What words refer to calling someone on the telephone?
    call phone (v)

Conjugation phone conjugation

How do you conjugate phone?

phone · verb

Examples phone examples

How do I use phone in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There's a phone call for you from Akemi.
I'll phone you as soon as I get to the airport.
She knew neither his address nor his phone number.
I told my boss over the phone that I would be going straight home without returning to the company.
What's your phone number?
Please phone him.
I borrowed Tom's phone this morning.
Tom can't come to the phone right now.
I need to charge my cell phone.
Tom gave Mary his phone number.
I doubt that Tom knows Mary's phone number.
Tom felt his phone vibrate.
Does Tom have your phone number?
Where can one make a phone call?
I was about to go out when the phone rang.
How can you have a laptop and not a cell phone?
I tried to reach you on the phone, but I was unable to get through.
I forget your phone number.
May I use your phone?
Let me put down your new phone number in my notebook.
You are wanted on the phone.

Movie subtitles

It's about that phone call from before.
It's the school's phone, so I don't think.
I just got off the phone with the zone leader.
I am so sorry to have to give this news over the phone.
Dr. Kowalski, phone call on line 1.
Do you need me to call Valencia from a burner phone and tell her there's been a murder at the yoga studio so you and Josh can have more alone time?
Can you get my phone?
There's one number programmed into this phone.
Yeah, I dropped my phone in the toilet.
Every time I saw your name, I wanted to pick up the phone.
And so I, uh, I stole her phone and I posted the picture.
Y-Y-You hacked into Valencia's phone?
How much of this stuff are you watching a day on your phone?
Honey, I think that's your phone.
Phone call?
He's made three phone calls.
Where's your phone?
You will tell Dr. Seward, who is sitting in the next box, that there is a phone call for him.
Dr. Seward, there's a phone call for you.
There's a phone call for me.
I couldn't get her on the phone.
Well, if you feel that way about it, here's your nickel for the phone call.
You're not even in the phone book, sucker.
Give me your phone number and I'll call you.
You got a phone here, Jane?
No, you keep away from that phone.
We have a scrambled phone link.
You can each of you make one phone call home but you must not, under any circumstances, tell them where you are and what is happening.
I don't know who to phone.
I need you to phone my folks, I want you to tell them that I'm fine and everything's OK, that I'm just going to go travelling for a little bit.
Stiles, what the hell are you doing? You weren't answering your phone!
Is it convenient to take a phone call?
Who were you talking on the phone with just then?
When are you going to make the phone call?
Continuously looking at the phone and thinking of me? Yes.
EXCEPT. THIS MORNING, YOUR PHONE IS FLOODED WITH TEXT MESSAGES FROM CLARK.
WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A PHONE CALL.

News and current affairs

One key tool is the mobile phone.
We even decided over the phone what kind of pesticide to use and which tractor company to hire.
This view clearly influences Republican office-holders, who fear the partisan beast that mans their campaigns' phone banks and holds the purse strings.
Strengthening democracy means working with the Kenyan developers of a crisis-mapping platform that allows anyone with a cell phone to text information about election fraud or violence to a central monitoring station.
Mobile phone use is already spreading rapidly in developing countries, making old-style fixed infrastructure unnecessary; data services can use the same system.
Not surprisingly, it was in Africa - not Europe or America - where the cell phone first overtook the housebound handset.
With modern highways, port facilities, and communications links available, a cellular phone manufacturer in Shenzhen might receive just-in-time deliveries of parts several times a day from suppliers that are only hours away.
When Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged phone calls with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 6, he expressed China's rejection of rhetoric and action aimed at destabilizing the Northeast Asian region.
Mobile phone coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, has gone from nearly zero subscribers 20 years ago to around 700 million today.
If your mobile phone was assembled in India, but developed and designed in Finland, is it an Indian or a Finnish product?
Think of Nokia, the mobile phone maker.
Seven out of every eight minutes spent on a mobile phone is spent within an app, and the most popular app in the world is Facebook.
As recently as the 1980's, phone calls over copper wire could carry only one page of information per second; today, a thin strand of optical fiber can transmit 90,000 volumes in a second.
We are good at estimating how well we know simple facts (such as the capitals of countries), procedures (such as how to make an international phone call), and narratives (such as the plots of well-known movies).
That model is now threatened by the fallout from the scandal that started with phone hacking in Murdoch's British press operations.
Rebekah Brooks, the editor of The News of the World at the beginning of the phone-hacking scandal, and subsequently the chief executive of News International, Murdoch's British subsidiary, played precisely such a role.
Second, the public's faith in glamorous international cities has increased with the explosive growth in global communications due to the Internet and the cell phone.
After all, who could be against an activity that produces uplifting stories like the cell phone ladies of Bangladesh, who lift themselves out of poverty by obtaining loans to buy phones and then selling minutes to others in the village.
None returned the phone calls, faxes, or e-mails that I sent after I returned home.
And European app developers, too, build businesses on mobile phone software.
His public and private entreaties, including dozens of phone calls and meetings, saved perhaps a half-million lives.
India, for example, has 525 million mobile phone users and fewer than 150 million people with Internet access, so using mobile-phone technology as a tool of e-governance has become vital.
Police refuse to return Chen's personal computer and cell phone.
The village, too, is mysteriously without phone service.
In 1998, when America complained about seven Moscow Internet addresses involved in the theft of Pentagon and NASA secrets, the Russian government replied that phone numbers from which the attacks originated were inoperative.

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