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English to English noun
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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
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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 | | source: wordnet30
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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
source: wordnet30
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Colloq. for Telephone. | | source: webster1913 verb
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get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | | Example: I tried to call you all night
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
source: wordnet30
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