What is the meaning of phone?

noun

• Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.
  • usage: "I talked to him on the telephone"
  • synonyms: telephone, telephone set
• Phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.
  • synonyms: speech sound, sound
• Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear.
  • usage: "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"
  • synonyms: earphone, earpiece, headphone

verb

• Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone.
  • usage: "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
  • synonyms: call, telephone, call up, ring