Phone vs. Phonetics — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Phone and Phonetics
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Phone
A telephone.
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Phoneticians—linguists who specialize in phonetics—study the physical properties of speech.
Phone
A speech sound considered without reference to its status as a phoneme or an allophone in a language.
Phonetics
The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.
Phone
To make or try to make a telephone connection with; place a call to.
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Phonetics
The system of sounds of a particular language.
Phone
To dial (a specific number)
Phone 411 for directory assistance.
Phonetics
(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
Phone
To impart (information or news, for example) by telephone.
Phonetics
The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
Phone
To telephone.
Phonetics
The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.
Phone
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.
Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
My phone ran out of battery.
There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
Phonetics
The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
Phone
(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
Phone
(transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
Phone
Colloq. for Telephone.
Phone
A speech sound.
Phone
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
Phone
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
Phone
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
Phone
Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;
I tried to call you all night
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
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