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Definition: Phone |
PhoneNoun1. 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". 2. (linguistics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. 3. 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". Verb1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Language | The smallest possible segment of sound abstracted from the continuum of speech. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | An acoustic unit used to measure the overall loudness level of a noise. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language (see phonology and phonetics).A phoneme is a set of phones that carry the same meaning; different phones that are interpreted as the same phoneme in a language are said to be allophones of each other.
Phone is a colloquial term for telephone; it is also a verb meaning to call someone on a telephone.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phone."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The telephone or phone is a telecommunications device designed to transmit speech by means of electric signals. It was invented around 1860 by Antonio Meucci who called it teletrophone, as recently recognized by the US Congress in the resolution 269 on June 15th, 2002. Before that resolution it was generally attributed to Alexander Graham Bell. The first recorded public demonstration of Meucci's invention took place in 1860, and had a description of it published in New York's Italian language newspaper. In 1861 Philipp Reis presented a machine for electronic voice transmission.
The very early constructions of the telephone was based on sound transportation through air rather than generated electric signals from speech. According to a letter in the Peking Gazette, in 968, the Chinese inventor Kung-Foo-Whing invented the thumtsein, which probably transported the speech through pipes. Even the early inventions made by Meucci et al transported the sound through pipes.
The history of additional inventions and improvements of the electrical telephone includes the carbon microphone (later replaced by the electret microphone now used in almost all telephone transmitters), the manual switchboard, the rotary dial, the automatic telephone exchange, the computerized telephone switch, Touch Tone(R) dialing (DTMF), the digitization of sound using different coding techniques including pulse code modulation or PCM (which is commonly used for .WAV files and on compact disks).
Newer systems include ISDN, DSL, cell phone (mobile) systems, digital cell phone systems, cordless telephones and the third generation cell phone systems that promise to allow high-speed packet data transfer.
The industry was early on divided into telephone equipment manufacturers and telephone network operators (telcos), the latter often holding a national monopoly. In the United States, the Bell System was vertically integrated: it fully or partially owned the telephone companies that provided service to about 80% of the telephones in the country and also owned Western Electric, which manufactured or purchased virtually all the equipment and supplies used by the local telephone companies. The Bell System divested itself of the local telephone companies in 1984 in order to settle an antitrust suit brought against it by the United States Department of Justice.
The first transatlantic telephone call was between New York City and London and occurred on January 7, 1927.
Telephone equipment manufacturers
Alcatel, Ericsson, Huawei, Lucent, Marconi, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Samsung, Siemens AG, Sony Ericsson
Telephone equipment research labs
Bell Labs
Telephone operating companies
Some Telco names (in alphabetic order) include: AT&T, BC TEL, Belgacom, Bell, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Cable and Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, GTE, IDT, ITT, MCI, NTL, NTT, SBC Communications, Telefonica, Teleglobe, Telewest, Telstra, Telia, TELUS, Verizon
Land-line based phone systems and fixed telephony
The network that connects most phones together is known as the PSTN (public switched telephone network).
Fixed phone lines are usually copper wirelines which form a circuit between the subscriber and the exchange, although some recent installations may use optical fiber for part of the distance. An analog line typically uses frequencies of 0-3.5 kHz, with frequencies higher than this filtered at the exchange. The analog speech signals are carried over the digital backbone network as a stream of digitally encoded samples at a sample rate of 8 kHz. The frequences above 4 kHz can be utilized for DSL connections.
A line is a single voice communications circuit between the subscriber and the central switching office. A trunk is a single circuit between central offices and may be analog or digital and is transmitted via copper, microwave, or fiber optics. A trunk group is a grouping of identical trunk circuits between two specific central offices.
Automatic telephone systems generally use numeric addresses, more commonly known as telephone numbers. The addressing system often distinguishes local, long-distance and international calls. Local calls are initiated by dialling the local number. A long-distance number is indicated by a long-distance prefix (CCITT recommends "0") followed by area code and a number local to that area. International phone calls require an international prefix (CCITT recommends "00") followed by area code and local number. US and Canadian phone systems use "1" as the long distance prefix and "011" for international prefix. See country calling codes for access codes to international telephone services.
Larger companies and organizations often employ a PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange). This is a telephone switch that defines its own local phone number range, which is commonly embedded in a public local phone number range. Some of the largest companies now even have their own internal telephone networks across the country, or even throughout the world, with limited gateways into the PSTN.
Most PSTN systems use analog communication between individual phones and the local switch. If digital communication is used for an individual phone, the system used is usually ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network).
Between switches in the PSTN, most signalling is now digital using Signalling System 7 ("SS7").
Cordless telephones
Cordless telephones consist of a base unit that connects to the land-line system and also communicates with remote handsets by low power radio. This permits use of the handset from any location within range of the base. Initially, cordless phones used the 1.7 MHz range to communicate between between base and handset. Because of quality and range problems, these units were soon superseded by systems that used frequency modulation in higher frequency ranges (49 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz). The range of modern cordless phones is normally on the order of a few hundred yards.
Wireless phone systems
Most wireless phone systems are cell-structured. Wireless communication is used between the handsets and the cell. Communication between cells can be wireless, or over ground cables. When an active handset moves from one cell to another, the call is automatically transferred to the next cell without interrupting the call.
There are now multiple standards for common carrier wireless telephony, often with multiple incompatable standards used in the same nation:
- First generation - Analog
- marine and mobile radio telephony
- AMPS
- CDPD data service on AMPS
- NMTS
- Second generation (2G) - Digital
- CDMA IS-95A
- GSM, (different frequencies for different continents: see GSM article)
- iDEN
- TDMA IS-136
- 2.5G
- CDMA IS-95B
- GPRS
- EDGE
- i-Mode
- Third generation (3G)
- CDMA 2000
- UMTS, also called W-CDMA
- TD-SCDMA
Related articles
ADSL, AIOD leads, Answering machine, ANAC, Area code, Assistive Technology, Automatic redial, Basic exchange telecommunications radio service, Bomb threat, Call center, Call originator, Caller, Caller ID, Camp-on busy signal, Computer telephony integration (CTI), Crank call, Customer premises equipment, Deaf, Demon dialing, Dial Tone, Digital subscriber line, Direct distance dialing, Dual tone multi frequency, Emergency telephone number, End instrument, Fax, Foreign exchange service, Help desk, Infrastructure, Interactive voice response (IVR), IP Telephony, Line, Local loop Long-distance operator, Party line, Modem Payphone, Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), Phone Phone phreaking, Photophone, Phreaking, Post office Prank call, Private line, Red telephone box, Ringer equivalency number, Ringing signal, Rural radio service, Smartphone, TAPI, Telautograph, Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD or TTY), Telemarketing, Telephone booth, Telephone directory, Telephone exchange Telephone tapping Telegraph, Telemarketing, Videotex, Voice over Internet Protocol, Voicemail, War dialing, Wide Area Telephone Service, Wireless network, Wi-Fi 610 (telephone), 431A
US-specific
Federal Standard 1037C-Glossary of telephony terms, Federal Regulations - Part 68, Modification of Final Judgment, Local access and transport area (LATA), Local exchange carrier, Interexchange carrier, Regional Bell operating company, Competitive local exchange carrier
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Telephone."
Synonyms: PhoneSynonyms: earphone (n), earpiece (n), headphone (n), sound (n), speech sound (n), telephone set (n), call (v), call up (v), ring (v), telephone (v). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Please tell me that their lawyer hasn't pinned their hopes on a phone bill (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) I draw the line at seven unreturned phone calls (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) The new phone book's here (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Floris, Get Guinness on the Phone. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Not until you give me Seth's phone number (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin') | |
Lyrics | Answer the phone, I know that you're home (Answer The Phone; performing artist: Sugar Ray) You've got her number and your hand is on the phone (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC) You probably spend hours on the phone (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner) COULD YOU PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL ME AT HOME (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) Play solitaire and stare at the phone (When Somebody Loves You; performing artist: Alan Jackson) | |
Clever | I cannot dial 911. There's no 11 on my phone. (references; author: unknown) For people who like peace and quiet: A phone less cord. (references; author: unknown) Good Communication Skills: Spends lots of time on phone. (references; author: unknown) Why are there so many Johnsons in the phone book? They all have phones. (references; author: unknown) You've reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night you pray it isn't for you. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Solution by Phone (1954) Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) The Phone Message (1916) At the Phone (1912) Phone Booth (2002) | |
Song Titles | Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (performing artist: Primitive Radio Gods) Answer the Phone (performing artist: Sugar Ray) | |
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 | Publications requested by patients, the public and the health professional are packaged and shipped by NCI's Cancer Information Service through the 1-800-4-CANCER phone service. Credit: John Burklow (photographer). |  | Shown is a black woman with sage-colored jacket, and wearing a phone headset. CIS information specialists answer questions from the public, patients and health professionals about the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |
 | OR/WA BLM State Director Elaine Zielinski takes her cell phone call on Steens Mountain. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |  | Pouring Out Your Troubles? : If You Have A Drinking Problem Phone. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Safe sex made simple (green phone numbers). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | What every husband knows. But, Sam, it was only ten cents a share -- the man on the phone ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Barreville is a center for Amish farmers. Outside phone booth under gas sign is a common sight. For it is not contrary to the "plain people's principles to use a phone so long as it is not in the home. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Reporters and rewrite men writing stories, and waiting to be sent out. Rewrite man in background gets the story on the phone from reporter outside. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | International Music Hall, Radio City, New York, New York. Cat with kittens in phone booth. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Station WNEW, 565 5th Ave., New York City. Phone booth section. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cell Phone" by Ryan Wild Commentary: "A nokia 6210 cell phone..." | "Cell Phone" by Stacy Taylor Commentary: "This is a black flip cell phone that I had to take a pic of for a brochure I'm creating." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Modern phone ringing. | | Cellular phone ringing three times. |
| Digital phone ring. | | Modern phone ring. |
| Tone of powering on a cellular phone. | ||
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So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | Ford Prefect turned up the day after that looking hung over and complaining that Arthur never answered the phone. |
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Health | Mobile phone amplifying devices. (references) | |
Look for their number in the blue pages of the phone book. (references) | ||
The wire loop goes around your neck and connects to the mobile phone. (references) | ||
Business | Services are two-way and one-way with phone line return. (references) | |
There is no local production of cellular phone equipment. (references) | ||
WAP gateway suppliers include CMG, Nokia, Ericsson, Phone. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | In the city of Rio de Janeiro, the disabled have little or no access to buses (the main public transportation), subway, phone booths, and many other public facilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | He is unable to receive visitors or phone calls. (references) |
Afghanistan | The intruders demanded money and stole equipment, including cameras, computers, and a satellite phone. (references) | |
Economic History | India | The Indian telecom sector today offers a host of services such as cellular mobile phone, radio paging, Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS), MRT, and VSAT. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Most U.S. business representatives prefer to use cellular phone service, which is widely used in Almaty and is gaining popularity elsewhere in Kazakhstan. (references) | |
Mauritius | Also the two cellular phone companies carried out a major expansion program of their network in that year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | In early January, HADEP officials Serdar Tanis and Ebubekir Deniz helped open a Subprovincial office in Silopi (Sirnak Province); Tanis and his father allegedly received threatening phone calls from Jandarma officials regarding the office. (references) |
Romania | The police officer claimed that Silaghi had stolen his cell phone, and hit and kicked her in the police station in the Oradea railroad station. (references) | |
Mexico | On August 22, the Mexico City daily newspaper El Universal reported that the PGR would charge the individuals with illegal phone tapping, rather than with organized crime charges carrying stiffer penalties. (references) | |
Minorities | Turkey | In April the Jewish community in Istanbul received a phone threat against a 500-year-old synagogue. (references) |
Political Economy | Bahamas | There is little history of political violence or instability in The Bahamas, although semi-violent labor union protests erupted in early 1999 over Government plans to downsize the phone company. (references) |
POLAND | Several competitors now provide local phone service and domestic long distance service. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) authorized the use of satellite-based cellular phones (Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite--GMPCS), effective April 15, 1999. Prior to importation of handsets for this purpose, cellular phone service providers or authorized equipment dealers importing GMPCS handsets into the country are required to obtain an import certification from the NTC. (references) |
Uruguay | Exim's Uruguay Desk Officers may be contacted by phone at 202-565-3913, Fax: 202-565-3931. (references) | |
Albania | Names, addresses and phone numbers for commercial banks and other financial institutions operating in Albania follow. (references) | |
Travel | Guinea | A plethora of phone booths, using phone cards purchased at the post office, were installed throughout Conakry in 1996-1997, but are not always operational. (references) |
Ghana | Currently, services are provided by Ghana Telecom Limited, Westel (a partially U.S.-owned company), and four mobile cellular phone operators (Mobitel, Spacefon, Celltel, and One Touch). (references) | |
Ghana | Many privately owned communication centers that provide pay phone services are found in all major cities. (references) | |
Women | Slovenia | During 1999 and 2000, 224 persons were charged with offenses including domestic violence (82), "brutality" (25), "threat to safety" (27), and other unspecified offenses that resulted in injuries (51). SOS Phone, an NGO that provides anonymous emergency counseling and services to domestic violence victims, received approximately 6,300 calls during the year. (references) |
Tuvalu | Prostitution and sex tourism are illegal; legislation in 2000 abolished phone sex companies. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Poland | For example, in 2000, the NGO, La Strada received a grant from the Ministry of Internal Affairs Office of Victims' Rights of approximately $3,850 (15,000 PLN) in order to provide a mobile phone hot line for victims, food, and a social worker to assist victims, for 4 months. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Beth Veglahn | I just wouldn't accept his phone calls. I told him to stay away from me. I put in a restraining order against him, just stayed away from him. |
Dennis Miller | Don't be the ass-cavity on the cell phone in the movie theater. |
Howard Lutnick | Listening on the radio and trying to make phone calls and seeing if I can get anyone on the phone. But I wasn't able to get anyone on the phone, and just going downtown, just trying to get there. |
Jerry Lewis | If there's any of you folks out in television that have a phone, if you could call the studio and tell my lighting director that the damn lights are a pain in the tuchus. |
Joan Rivers | Very close, and he said, Melissa, I'm coming home. I'll see you tomorrow. And he hung up the phone and killed himself. |
Laura Schlessinger | That, they couldn't tell me. But the police officer said they didn't believe that she died immediately, but they believe that she wasn't with her faculties for whatever small period of time she was alive because she didn't pick up the phone or anything. |
Linda Thompson | My phone rang, and it was Lisa Marie, who was only nine years old at the time, and she used to call me from time to time because we were very close. As I said, I loved her a lot then. I love her a lot now. And she said, Linda, it's Lisa. |
Mary Tyler Moore | Just mostly talked to people on the phone. A lot of people calling me who weren't familiar with New York and didn't know what the battery was and how far away it was from where we lived, concerned for our safety. |
Rush Limbaugh | On Open Line Friday this week, we had a very provocative and controversial phone call from a graduate student named Libby in Piscataway, New Jersey. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | In fact I spoke by phone with President Gorbachev just today. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Soon we'll be able to carry all the phone calls on Mother's Day on a single strand of fiber the width of a human hair. |
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| "Phone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.02% of the time. "Phone" is used about 7,694 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.02% | 6,541 | 1,476 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.72% | 979 | 7,475 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.25% | 173 | 23,656 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,694 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| France | Annuaire Phone Edition |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "phone": advanced mobile phone service ♦ Advanced Mobile Phone System ♦ answering phone ♦ be on the phone ♦ by phone ♦ call on the phone ♦ car phone ♦ cellular phone ♦ desk phone ♦ dial phone ♦ extension phone ♦ get smb. on the phone ♦ make a phone call ♦ mobile phone ♦ on the phone ♦ orinasal phone ♦ over the phone ♦ pay phone ♦ phone back ♦ phone bill ♦ phone bok ♦ phone book ♦ phone booth ♦ phone box ♦ phone call ♦ phone card ♦ phone company ♦ phone cord ♦ phone dial ♦ phone directory ♦ phone in ♦ phone jack ♦ phone line ♦ phone mail ♦ phone message ♦ phone number ♦ phone plug ♦ phone service ♦ phone system ♦ phone tapper ♦ phone tapping ♦ phone up ♦ pick up the phone ♦ public phone ♦ put the phone down on smb. ♦ security phone ♦ spend on the phone ♦ take the phone of the hook. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "phone": phone-answerer-teamaker, phone-attachment, phone-banking, phone-based, phone-booth, phone-booths, phone-booth-to-phone-booth, phone-box, phone-boxes, phone-bugging, phone-call, phone-calls, phone-characters, phone-exchange, phone-extension, phone-in, phone-ins, phone-jack, phone-number, phone-ownership, phone-tap, phone-tapping, phone-taps, phone-time, phone-users. | |
Ending with "phone": car-phone, free-phone. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cellular phone | 42,412 | cingular phone | 2,658 |
phone number | 26,486 | phone search | 2,624 |
phone directory | 19,659 | prepaid cell phone | 2,532 |
phone book | 17,439 | phone system | 2,524 |
phone | 14,319 | motorola cell phone | 2,478 |
phone accessory | 7,773 | reverse phone search | 2,466 |
mobile phone | 7,174 | reverse phone number | 2,262 |
reverse phone lookup | 6,534 | nokia phone | 2,256 |
reverse phone directory | 5,938 | internet phone | 2,252 |
phone number search | 5,074 | reverse phone number lookup | 2,197 |
phone service | 5,071 | nextel phone | 2,098 |
phone company | 4,269 | phone listing | 2,030 |
white page phone | 4,166 | cell phone numbers | 2,030 |
wireless phone | 3,612 | phone number lookup | 1,973 |
cell phone plan | 3,586 | cell phone ring tone | 1,857 |
cell phone accessory | 3,540 | phone area code | 1,809 |
phone card | 3,328 | reverse phone book | 1,779 |
free cell phone | 3,162 | international phone card | 1,735 |
cordless phone | 3,085 | nokia cell phone | 1,623 |
reverse phone | 2,722 | motorola phone | 1,615 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "phone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | telefonoj (call up, ring up, telephone), telefon (public telephone, telephone). (various references) | |
Arabic | هاتف (blower, ring, telephone), تلفن (buzz, call, call up, ring up), صوت كلامي, صوت (cast a vote, phoneme, push through, register, sound, voice), خاطب بالتليفون, المسماع (audiometer, earphone, stethoscope). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | телефонирам (buzz, call, telephone), телефон, звук (noise, note, ring, sound, tune). (various references) | |
Chinese | 电话 (telephone, telephonic). (various references) | |
Czech | telefon (blower, telephone). (various references) | |
Danish | phon (phon), fon (phon). (various references) | |
Dutch | foon (phon). (various references) | |
Esperanto | telefonbudo (call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone kiosk), bebofono (baby intercom, baby phone). (various references) | |
Farsi | تلفن زدن (Telephone), تلفن (Telephone), صدا (Call, Calling, Noise, Phoneme, Report, Sonance, Sound, Tingle, Tone, Toom, Vocal, Vocation, Voice, Yell), اوا (Sound). (various references) | |
Finnish | puhelin (telephone), foni (phon). (various references) | |
French | téléphoner, phone (phon). (various references) | |
Frisian | telefoansel (call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone kiosk). (various references) | |
German | Telefon (telephone), telefonieren (call, call up, make a phone call, ring, ring up, telephone, to phone, to telephone), Hörer (ear piece, earphone, earpiece, hearer, hearers, listener, listeners, receiver). (various references) | |
Greek | Phon(Φων) (phon), φωνή (call, cry, sound, speech, voice, volume, vox), τηλέφωνο (telephone), τηλεφωνώ (call, call up, ring, ring up, telephone). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לטלפן (call, ring, ring up, telephone), טלפון (telephone). (various references) | |
Hungarian | telefon (hooter, horn, telephone). (various references) | |
Indonesian | telpon (telephone), menelpon (call, dial). (various references) | |
Italian | telefono (telephone). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フォン . (various references) | |
Korean | 전화 (telephone, telephonic). (various references) | |
Manx | chellvaney (ring up, telephone), chellvane (telephone). (various references) | |
Norwegian | telefonkiosk (call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone kiosk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onephay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fone (earphone, headpiece, headset, hearing aid). (various references) | |
Romanian | telefonic (by telephone, on the telephone, telephonic), telefona (call, give a ring, ring up, telephone), telefon (telephone), fon. (various references) | |
Russian | фона, телефон (telephone), звонить телефон телефонный, звонить по телефону (telephone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | telefonirati (buzz, call up, ring up, telephone), telefon (telephone), glas (report, reputation, rumor, rumour, sound, voice, vote, vox). (various references) | |
Slovene | telefonièno (by phone). (various references) | |
Spanish | telefonear (call, telephone), teléfono (blower, dog, horn, telephone), fon (phon). (various references) | |
Swedish | telefon (telephone). (various references) | |
Thai | โทรศัพท์เคลื่อนที่ (mobile phone). (various references) | |
Turkish | telefon etmek (buzz, call, call up, give a ring, give a tinkle, give smb. a tinkle, ring smb. up, ring up, telephone), telefon (blower, telephone), selenli, basit ses. (various references) | |
Turkmen | telefon (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | телефонувати (telephone), телефон (telephone), звук мови. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dây nói (telephone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "phone": phoned, phonematic, phoneme, phonemes, phonemic, phonemically, phonemicist, phonemicists, phonemics, phones, phonetic, phonetically, phonetician, phoneticians, phonetics, phoney, phoneyed, phoneying, phoneys. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "phone": allophone, anglophone, cellphone, diaphone, earphone, francophone, geophone, gramophone, headphone, homophone, hydrophone, megaphone, mellophone, metallophone, microphone, picturephone, polyphone, radiophone, radiotelephone, saxophone, sousaphone, speakerphone, sulphone, telephone, vibraphone, videophone, xylophone. (additional references) | |
Words containing "phone": allophones, cellphones, diaphones, earphones, geophones, gramophones, headphones, homophones, hydrophones, megaphoned, megaphones, mellophones, metallophones, microphones, morphophonemics, nonphonemic, nonphonetic, picturephones, polyphones, radiophones, radiotelephones, saxophones, siphoned, sousaphones, speakerphones, sulphones, syphoned, telephoned, telephoner, telephoners, telephones, vibraphones, videophones, xylophones. (additional references) | |
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"Phone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pehoe, phan, Phanh, pheen, phen, phene, phie, phin, phine, phione, phlon, pho, phobe, phoe, phoine, phome, Phomn, phon, phong, phonia, phonie, phonim, phonix, phonom, phont, phoon, phope, phore, phorno, phrone, phun, Phung, Phwore, pione, pohang, ponev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "phone" (pronounced fō"n) |
| 2 | -ō" n | alone, atone, bemoan, blown, bone, bourguignon, clone, Cologne, condone, cone, crone, cyclone, dethrone, disown, drone, flown, groan, grown, hipbone, homegrown, hone, intone, known, Leone, loan, lone, moan, Mon, outgrown, outshone, overblown, overgrown, overthrown, own, postpone, prone, roan, Scone, sewn, shone, shown, sown, stone, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, trone, unbeknown, unknown, zone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: hone, hope, nope, open, peon, phon, pone. | |
-2 letters: eon, hen, hep, hoe, hon, hop, noh, one, ope, peh, pen, poh. | |
-3 letters: eh, en, he, ho, ne, no, oe, oh, on, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: holpen, phenol, phenom, phoned, phones, phoney. | |
+2 letters: chopine, euphony, hencoop, hipbone, hyperon, hyponea, nephron, panoche, penoche, phaeton, phenols, phenoms, phenoxy, phocine, phoenix, phonate, phoneme, phoneys, phonied, phonier, phonies, pinhole, potheen, shopmen, unhoped. | |
+3 letters: aphelion, canephor, cenotaph, chaperon, chenopod, chopines, diaphone, earphone, ethephon, euphonic, geophone, hencoops, heptagon, hereupon, hipbones, homespun, hornpipe, hyperons, hypnoses, hypogean, hypogene, hyponeas, hypopnea, morphine, neomorph, neophyte, nephrons, orphaned, panoches, pantheon, pathogen, penoches, phaetons, phelonia, phenetol, phenolic, phonated, phonates, phonemes, phonemic, phonetic, phoneyed, phoniest, phosgene, pinholes, pinochle, poshness, potheens, preshown, prochein, puncheon, siphoned, sphenoid, stanhope, sulphone, syphoned, thiophen, tholepin, wineshop. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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