PHONING

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

Example: "I talked to him on the telephone"

• telephone  14
• telephone set

• electronic equipment

• desk phone
• dial phone
• dial telephone
• extension  16
• • extension phone
  • telephone extension
  • french telephone
  • handset  11
  • pay-phone
  • pay-station
  • radiophone  16
  • radiotelephone  20
  • wireless telephone
  • speakerphone  23
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(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

• sound  6
• speech sound

• language unit
• linguistic unit

• phoneme  14
• vowel  11
• vowel sound
• glide  7
• • semivowel  17
  • consonant  11
  • orinasal  8
  • orinasal phone
  • sonant  6
  • voiced sound
  • aspirate  10
  • ingressive  14
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Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear

Example: "It was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"

• earphone  13
• earpiece  12
• headphone  18

• electro-acoustic transducer

• earplug  10
• receiver  13
• telephone receiver