电话 — meaning in English

English meaning

• phone noun A device used to talk to someone over a distance, especially a mobile device that also runs apps.
• telephone verb To call someone or pass on information using a phone.

Senses

电话 is used for these senses in English:

• phon (acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
• phone (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.
• phone (ambitransitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
• telephone (countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).
• telephone call The conversation held by the two parties on this connection.

phone — full definition

1. noun A device used to talk to someone over a distance, especially a mobile device that also runs apps.
2. verb To call someone using a telephone.

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