phone

phone
[[t]fo͟ʊn[/t]]
♦♦
phones, phoning, phoned
1) N-SING: usu the N, also by N The phone is an electrical system that you use to talk to someone else in another place, by dialling a number on a piece of equipment and speaking into it.

`I didn't tell you over the phone,' she said. `I didn't know who might be listening...

She looked forward to talking to her daughter by phone...

Do you have an address and phone number for him?

Syn:
2) N-COUNT: usu the N The phone is the piece of equipment that you use when you dial someone's phone number and talk to them.
→ See also , mobile phone

Two minutes later the phone rang...

Doug's 14-year-old son Jamie answered the phone.

Syn:
3) N-SING: usu the N If you say that someone picks up or puts down the phone, you mean that they lift or replace the receiver.

She picked up the phone, and began to dial Maurice Campbell's number...

Trembling, she put the phone down. It rang again almost immediately.

Syn:
4) VERB When you phone someone, you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone.

[V n] He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better...

I got more and more angry as I waited for her to phone.

Syn:
telephone, ring
5) PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v If you say that someone is on the phone, you mean that they are speaking to someone else by phone.

She's always on the phone, wanting to know what I've been up to.

6) PHRASE: v-link PHR If you are on the phone, you have a phone in your home or place of work, so that you can be contacted by phone. [mainly BRIT]

The Frosts were not on the phone.

Phrasal Verbs:

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