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Synonyms for phone
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  1. telephone, phone, telephone setnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    sound, telephone, earphone, telephone set, earpiece, headphone, telephony, speech sound

  2. phone, speech sound, soundnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    sound, telephone, speech sound, earphone, telephone set, audio, strait, headphone, auditory sensation, earpiece

  3. earphone, earpiece, headphone, phonenoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    sound, telephone, earphone, telephone set, earpiece, headphone, speech sound

  4. call, telephone, call up, phone, ringverb

    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"

    Synonyms:
    predict, forebode, band, prognosticate, bring forward, promise, yell, call off, recollect, surround, shout out, retrieve, foretell, cry, peal, call in, scream, environ, holler, rally, mobilize, call up, echo, hollo, call, think, send for, knell, anticipate, border, address, visit, resound, shout, recall, mobilise, reverberate, name, call back, squall, bid, ring, remember, telephone, skirt

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How to use phone in a sentence?

  1. Rand Paul:

    So when they stand up on television and say the tragedy in Paris means you have to give up your liberty, we need more phone surveillance -- bulls--t!

  2. Mauri Friestleben:

    I handed him my phone. So, he watches it, comes back in, gives me the phone and he says,' I think I just watched a murder,'.

  3. Scott C. Holstad:

    well it’s almost noon and i've done nothing all day, all my great plans shot to hell, of getting up at 7 and writing 3 new poems 1 new story 5 letters of sending out submissions to 4 new magazines and making several phone calls all by noon – so i'll just keep drinking coffee and reading from the stack of books on my kitchen table and maybe i'll go catch a flick and maybe just maybe i'll get half as much done tomorrow.

  4. Brian Brooks:

    I get a phone call.

  5. Trevor Noah:

    You have got to be kidding me, apparently, Saudi Arabia wo n’t even pick up the phone for the president of the United States.


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