n. A telephone. v. phoned, phon·ing, phones v.tr. 1. a. To make or try to make a telephone connection with; place a call to. b. To dial (a specific number): Phone 411 for directory assistance. 2. To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone. v.intr. Idiom: To telephone. phone it in To do something in a perfunctory way or with little interest: One of the actors in the play was just phoning it in. [Short for TELEPHONE.] |
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n. A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language. |
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Tweet suff. 1. Sound: homophone. 2. Device that receives or emits sound: geophone. 3. Speaker of a language: Anglophone. |
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