A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances, and replays such signals simultaneously in audible form to its user.
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近义词
n.
electronic equipment, language unit, linguistic unit, electro-acoustic transducer
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
synonymous: telephone, telephone set
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
synonymous: speech sound, sound
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
synonymous: earphone, earpiece, headphone
phone v.
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone