phone

v. make a telephone call; ring

n. telephone (Slang)

Within phonetics, a phone is: a speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties a particular occurrence of a speech segment the basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis
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The suffix -phone is used in English, to denote words which are sound related, e.g. microphone and telephone or more especially related to the speaking of a particular language. It comes from the Greek phonos meaning sound. In the English, a variety of French-derived words ending in the suffix -phone exist to denote a connection to a specific language. A few of these words, when used as adjectives, literally mean "speaking a particular language." When used as nouns, these words can also mean a "person that speaks this particular language."
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Noun
1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"
(synonym) telephone, telephone set
(hypernym) electronic equipment
(hyponym) desk phone
(part-holonym) telephone system, phone system
(part-meronym) mouthpiece
(derivation) call, telephone, call up, ring
2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
(synonym) speech sound, sound
(hypernym) language unit, linguistic unit
(hyponym) phoneme
(part-holonym) utterance, vocalization
(derivation) vocalize, vocalise, phonate
(classification) phonetics
3. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"
(synonym) earphone, earpiece, headphone
(hypernym) electro-acoustic transducer
(hyponym) telephone receiver, receiver
Verb
1. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
(synonym) call, telephone, call up, ring
(hypernym) telecommunicate
(hyponym) cell phone
(entail) dial
(verb-group) call
(derivation) telephone, telephone set
(classification) telephone, telephony

n. (Physics) phone

1. Abbreviation for telephone, telephony. 2. Colloquially, the voice-operation mode in radio communications.