phoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /fəʊ̯n/
• (米国発音) IPA: /foʊ̯n/
• 韻: -əʊn

語源 1

Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.

別の表記

• 'phone (dated)

名詞

phone (plural phones)

1. 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.

   Hyponyms: cell phone, speakerphone, clamshell phone, flip phone, mobile phone, smartphone

   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.

2. (colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
   • 1994, Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate (song)

     It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume / Some skirts for the eve so I can get some phones / Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone

派生語

派生した語

• → Burmese: ဖုန်း (hpun:)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: फ़ोन (fon)
  • Urdu: فون (fon)
• → Irish: fón
• → Persian:
  • Dari: فون (fōn)
• → Portuguese: fone
• → Tamil: ஃபோன் (fōṉ)
• → Vietnamese: phôn
• → Welsh: ffôn

参考

• Thesaurus:phone

動詞

phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)

1. (ambitransitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.

   Synonyms: call, phone up, ring, telephone

   Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.

   Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.

   • 2010, Tyler Keevil, chapter 32, in Fireball, Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, page 148:

     It wasn’t like he was dying to get it off his chest. I think he only phoned because he knew how excited I’d be to hear about it.

派生語

語源 2

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

名詞

phone (plural phones)

1. (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.

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• nepho-, pheno-, pheon

発音

接尾辞

-phone

1. A type of sound.

   allophone; homophone

2. A device that makes a sound.

   aerophone; saxophone

3. Forming adjectives: speaking a certain language.

   Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone

4. Forming nouns: a speaker of a certain language.

   Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• nepho-, pheno-, pheon