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WordBand 4.5–5.5Core (NGSL)
phone
/fəʊ̯n/
verb1 of 2
to talk to someone using a telephone
- “I need to use your phone to call the police.”Tatoeba
- “If the phone rings again, I plan to ignore it.”Tatoeba
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noun2 of 2
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.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)