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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | | Copyright

PHONE, Also speech sound. In PHONETICS, an elementary spoken sound, the smallest segment of speech recognized by a listener as a complete vowel or consonant. Because all speakers sound slightly different, and any one speaker produces vowels and consonants differently on different occasions, the number of phones in a language is indefinitely large. They are grouped into a small number of PHONEMES or units of distinctive sound.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

phone¹ / fōn/ • n. short for telephone. ∎ (phones) inf. headphones or earphones. • v. short for telephone. PHRASES: phone it in work or perform in a desultory fashion. phone² • n. Phonet. a speech sound; the smallest discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

phone2 (philol.) element of spoken language. XIX. — Gr. phōnḗ sound (see PHONETIC).

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

phone1 abbrev. of TELEPHONE. XX.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

phone •alone, atone, Beaune, bemoan, blown, bone, Capone, clone, Cohn, Cologne, condone, cone, co-own, crone, drone, enthrone, flown, foreknown, foreshown, groan, grown, half-tone, home-grown, hone, Joan, known, leone, loan, lone, moan, Mon, mown, ochone, outflown, outgrown, own, phone, pone, prone, Rhône, roan, rone, sewn, shown, Simone, Sloane, Soane, sone, sown, stone, strown, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, Tyrone, unbeknown, undersown, zone •Dione • backbone • hambone •breastbone • aitchbone •tail bone, whalebone •cheekbone • shin bone • hip bone •wishbone • splint bone • herringbone •thigh bone • jawbone • marrowbone •knuckle bone • collarbone •methadone • headphone • cellphone •heckelphone • payphone • Freefone •radio-telephone, telephone •videophone • francophone •megaphone • speakerphone •allophone • Anglophone • xylophone •gramophone • homophone •vibraphone • microphone •saxophone • answerphone •dictaphone •sarrusophone, sousaphone •silicone • pine cone • snow cone •flyblown • cyclone • violone •hormone • pheromone • Oenone •chaperone • progesterone •testosterone

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