单词 | phone |
释义 | phone1/fəʊn /noun 1A telephone: a few seconds later the phone rang a receptionist answered the phone [as modifier]: a phone number...
Synonyms telephone, mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, car phone, radio-telephone, cordless phone, videophone, extension; North American speakerphone British informal blower British rhyming slang dog and bone 2 (phones) informal Headphones or earphones.I had a pair of SR-325i and must admit they were the most uncomfortable phones I have ever placed on my head....
verb (also phone up or phone someone up) 1Contact someone by telephone: [with object]: he phoned her at work [no object]: she phoned about twenty minutes ago...
Synonyms telephone, call, call up, give someone a call/ring, ring, ring up, get someone on the phone, get on the phone to, get, reach, dial, make/place a call (to) informal buzz, give someone a buzz British informal bell, give someone a bell/tinkle, get on the blower to North American informal get someone on the horn 1.1 (phone it in) informal Work or perform without much effort, interest, or enthusiasm: I think of my playing as committed—I can’t remember ever phoning it in at any performance...
Phraseson the phone OriginLate 19th century: abbreviation of telephone. Rhymesphone2/fəʊn /noun Phonetics A speech sound; the smallest discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech.It has been shown that enlarging the phone set and using more alternative symbols to represent partial variations and attempting to use more refined acoustic models trained from accurate surface form transcriptions are of little benefit....
OriginMid 19th century: from Greek phōnē 'sound, voice'. |
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