| 释义 |
phone
I. \ˈfōn\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: short for telephone
: earphone, telephone, telephone receiver
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: telephone
< if I didn't phone the office, she would close up at 5 p.m. — Christopher Morley >
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Greek phōnē sound, voice
1. : allophone
2. : a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to how it fits into the structure of a language — compare phoneme
IV. noun combining form
(-s)
: speaker of (a specified language)
< Francophone >
V. adjective combining form
Etymology: French, from Greek -phōnos -sounding, from phōnein to sound, from phōnē sound, voice — more at ban
: of or relating to a population that speaks (a specified language)
< Francophone > |