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Textual thesaurus for "phone"

(noun) earphone, earpiece, headphone

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


(noun) telephone, telephone set

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


(noun) sound, speech sound

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language


(verb) ring, call, call up, 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