phone

Multiple Entries:
  phone    -phone  

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phone1

▶noun

• 1 a telephone.

• 2 (phones) informal headphones or earphones.

▶verb

• 1 call or speak to someone on the telephone.

• 2 (phone it in) US informal work or perform in a desultory fashion.

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phone2

▶noun Phonetics a speech sound.

– origin C19: from Gk phōnē ‘sound, voice’.

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-phone/fəʊn/

▶combining form

• 1 denoting an instrument using or connected with sound: megaphone.

• 2 denoting a person who uses a specified language: francophone.

– derivatives
-phonic combining form,
-phony combining form.

– origin from Gk phōnē ‘sound, voice’.