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pager
English
Etymology
From page +? -er.
Pronunciation
- enPR: p??j?r, IPA(key): /pe?d??(?)/
- Rhymes: -e?d??(r)
- Hyphenation: pag?er
Noun
pager (plural pagers)
- A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
- (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
Synonyms
- beeper
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- gaper, grape, parge
Portuguese
Noun
pager m (plural pagers)
- pager (device used for sending and receiving electronic messages)
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phone
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f???n/
- (US) IPA(key): /fo??n/
- Rhymes: -??n, -o?n
Etymology 1
Clipping of telephone; attested by 1884.
Alternative forms
- 'phone (dated)
Noun
phone (plural phones)
- 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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- phonecall
- phoneless
- speakerphone
Related terms
- phone sex
- phone tag
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ???? (fon)
- ? Irish: fón
- ? Portuguese: fone
- ? Urdu: ???? (fon)
- ? Welsh: ffôn
Translations
See also
- Thesaurus:phone
Verb
phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)
- (transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
Synonyms
- call, ring, telephone
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ???? (ph?n?, “sound”).
Noun
phone (plural phones)
- (phonetics) 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.
Related terms
- phonetic
- phonetically
- phonetics
- phonology
- phoneme
Translations
Anagrams
- nepho-, pheno-, pheon
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?n/
Noun
phone m (plural phones)
- phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
- (linguistics) phone
Verb
phone
- first-person singular present indicative of phoner
- third-person singular present indicative of phoner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
- second-person singular imperative of phoner
Further reading
- “phone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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