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    • phone :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

    • phone :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

    • phone :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

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

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