Phone Phone

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

NigForexBlog: Weekend Rock List: Phone Songs http://bit.ly/8bYZS9
Snipe_Mcfly: i hate wen girls sing on the Phone...but i bear thru and like i always have and say she sounds beautiful...
CMoz: RT @pete_gilbert: Apple "Tablet" & Chrome OS are Meaningless - the Phone is the Future of Computing http://bit.ly/2o12ni (via @ponzarelli)
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