Definition von „phone“ auf Englisch

noun

1. 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.

   • Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
   • My phone ran out of battery.
   • There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.

2. (colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.

   • It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume / Some skirts for the eve so I can get some phones / Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone

verb

1. (ambitransitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.

   • Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
   • Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.

noun

1. (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.