phoned

noun

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.

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

(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.

verb

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

Roots

phonephon- · Greek · sound, voice

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