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Phone - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Alveolar, Amplitude, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bilabial, Buzz, Call, Cerebral, Check, Consonant, Dental, Dial, Diphthong, Dissimilation, Earphone

Phone (Greek φωνή) is a colloquial term for a device to transmit speech. See telephone.


In phonetics and phonology, a phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language. Compare with phoneme, a set of phones that carry the same meaning.

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Example Usage of Phone

SandyEbbs: Wow, I actually made $300 dollars using my cell Phone today! http://momgotchat.maverickco.hop.clickbank.net
GColdplay: This morning I tried about 1 million times to upload something of @Fleurr__x Phone, but he didn't like me. Computer is better... :D
FlynnyZM: waiting for interview with the Temper Trap - but their Phone is off! Rock and Roll. So Im just sitting here like a ball bag.
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