| 释义 | 
		Noun: phone  fown- Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
  - telephone, telephone set  - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
  - speech sound, sound  - Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
  - earphone, earpiece, headphone  Verb: phone  fown- Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
  - call, telephone, call up, ring 
 Derived forms: phoning, phoned, phones See also: phonate, phoner, phonetic, phonic Type of: electro-acoustic transducer, electronic equipment, language unit, linguistic unit, telecommunicate Part of: phone system, telephone system, utterance, vocalization Encyclopedia: Phone  |