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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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nym
- For “nyms”, semantic relations in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Semantic relations.
English
Etymology
Clipping of pseudonym.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
nym (plural nyms)
- (Internet) A pseudonym used when posting messages.
Related terms
- nymshift
- nymshifter
- nymshifting
- nymwars
See also
- -nym
- -onym
Anagrams
- myn
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