phone

Noun

• 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
    

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

• 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
    

Verb

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  earphone , earpiece , headphone , speech sound , sound , telephone , telephone set , call , call up , ring