Phone

Definitions

1. A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
2. A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
3. A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call⟳ you when he's finished.”

“My phone ran out of battery.”

“There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work⟳ anymore, of course.”

“It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume⟳ / Some skirts for the eve so I can get⟳ some phones / Rollin' in my ride⟳, chillin' all alone”

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