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phone

noun
  1. 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 them on the phone.”
    telephonetelephone set
  2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
    sound
verb
  1. get or try to get into communication with someone by telephone
    “I'm going to phone the school in the morning.”
    call