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Meanings of phone in English

Portuguese
telefone
Catalan
telèfon
Spanish
teléfono
Wikidata

Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.

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        telefone
        Portuguese
        chamar
        Catalan
        trucar
        Spanish
        llamar
        Wikidata

        To contact someone using the telephone.

              chamar
              Wikidata

              To speak with a person by telephone.

                    Portuguese
                    fone de cabeça
                    Catalan
                    auricular

                    Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear.

                          fone de cabeça
                          Usage of phone in English
                          1
                          A company representative reached by phone said Amoudi was in good health.
                          Reuters
                          2
                          You can vote a maximum of 20 times per mobile phone number.
                          News.com.au
                          3
                          I even got thirty minutes of free phone calls home every week.
                          Last night another soldier...
                          4
                          Second, the bureau kept Bazin's undercover phone number active, just in case.
                          Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen tr...
                          5
                          Got the latest information on cell-phone activity from that area in question.
                          Sacrifice
                          6
                          A month later Lansley said the department just meant the phone number.
                          The Guardian
                          7
                          The Kremlin said the four leaders would continue to speak by phone.
                          Reuters
                          8
                          Pretty soon no one called the toll-free phone number to report leads.
                          Solomon's oak: a novel
                          9
                          Willcom provides mobile phone services using a technology called personal handyphone system.
                          Reuters
                          10
                          Since when do you answer the phone 'Aaron Tucker?' asked my wife.
                          A farewell to legs: an aaron tucker mystery
                          11
                          What's really important for someone my age is a charging phone case.
                          NY Magazine
                          12
                          Locating this phone number on Asiana's website required significant effort, it said.
                          News.com.au
                          13
                          The new phone would help this part of Samsung's business, he said.
                          Reuters
                          14
                          VIEW The worldés favorite statistic about phone use is no longer true.
                          Wired
                          15
                          Security measures also included shutting down mobile phone networks across the city.
                          Reuters
                          16
                          However, you wouldn't want to give each user a different phone list.
                          Unix power tools, 3rd edition
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                          Phone through the time
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                          Common
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                          Common
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                          Common
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